Legal Opinion
The Iron Chief
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided October 17, 1892PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Admiralty. Libel against tbe steamer Iron Chief for collision with the schooner J. F. Card.
1Opinion of the Court
SWAN, District Judge.
About 9 o’clock A. M. of July 24, 1891, the weather being clear and i he wind fresh from the northwest, the schooner J. F. Card, bound down, came into collision with the steamer Iron Chief, having- ia tow the barge Iron Cliff, both coal laden and bound to Duluth. The collision occurred a short distance above Iiound Island, at the hi -ail of St. Mary’s river, and at its junction with Waiska bay, and on the extreme northerly side of the channel leading between “Middle Ground Buoy,” Xo. 76, (red spar buoy,) and “Opposite Middle Ground Buoy,” Xo. 79, (black spar buoy,) as…
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