Buzzard v. The Petrel

McLEAN, Circuit Justice.

This is an appeal from the decree of the district court in admiralty.2 The scow Petrel and her boats, tackle, apparel and furniture were attached on a libel filed by the plaintiff [Levi Buzzard], as owner of the schooner Avenger, which is a vessel of more than twenty tons burthen, viz., seventy tons; that said schooner, being on a voyage from port St. Clair to the port of Detroit, had come to anchor on the St. Clair river below Newport, was carelessly and negligently run into and damaged by the scow7 Petrel, &c.

The collision is not controverted, though in the answer…