The Jay Gould
District Court, E.D. Michigan
In Admiralty. This was a libel for a collision between the tug Martin Swain and the propeller Jay Gould, which took place about 3 o’clock in the morning of September 27,1881, in the Detroit river, between the head of Bois Blanc island and the main Canadian shore.
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In Admiralty. This was a libel for a collision between the tug Martin Swain and the propeller Jay Gould, which took place about 3 o’clock in the morning of September 27,1881, in the Detroit river, between the head of Bois Blanc island and the main Canadian shore. At the head of the island are two range lights, by which vessels coming down the channel from the Lime-kiln crossing, so called, are accustomed to take their course until they turn down the channel between the island and the main land. Nearly opposite these lights, and about 250 feet from the main land is a red can-buoy, marking the…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
Much testimony was introduced upon either side, tending, upon the part of the libelant, to prove that the collision took place on the easterly.side of the channel, and within two or three hundred feet of the red can-buoy; and, on che part of the claimant, to show that it must have occurred within a short distance of the head of the island, and upon the extreme westerly side of the channel. As usual, ■each crew swears almost as one witness to its own theory of the case, and in direct conflict to the other, each endeavoring to get his own vessel, as far as possible, toward its own side of the…
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