Foster v. The Miranda

DRUMMOND, District Judge.

This is a libel filed by the owner of the brig S. F. Gale, against the schooner Miranda, for damages sustained by the brig, from a collision with the schooner in the fall of 1849. The brig 8. F. Gale from Chicago with a load of wheat, was proceeding down the lake on her way to Buffalo. When near the foot of Lake Michigan, off Point Wabbeshanks, not far from the light-ship stationed near that point, about three o’clock in the morning of the lltli of October, the collision took place. The wind was south-south-east The brig was close hauled upon the >vind with her…