The C. P. Minch
District Court, N.D. New York
This was a libel against the schooner O. P. Minch, filed by certain of her crew to recover salvage.
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
On the 19ih of September, 1893, the three-masted schooner O. P. Minch, having a cargo of about 639 tons of stone, set sail from Portage Entries, a port on Lake Superior, destined for Buffalo. Her crew consisted of a master, mate, cook and four seamen. There were also on board two passengers. On the afternoon of the 21st she reached Whiteftsh Point. The wind was blowing strong from the southeast and it was difficult if not impossible to round the point in the face of the heavy sea and strong head wind. In .these circumstances she dropped anchor under the lee of the point…
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