Blanchard Lumber Co. v. Metcalf

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree awarding $8,900 for damage done to -the schooner Susan B.’ by stranding her on a shoal, known as the Middle Ground, in the River Hebert in Nova Scotia. The decision below is based solely on the court’s finding that the captain of the "tug furnished by libelee was negligent in taking the schooner out by the port channel when due care required him to go the other side of the shoal.

The Susan B. was a three-masted schooner, 148 feet long, 455 gross tons.' She was chartered by the appellant on June 12, 1922, to transport a cargo of laths from…