Propeller Monticello v. Mollison
Supreme Court of the United States
' Tais was an appeal from the circuit court of the United . States for the northern-district of New York., It was a case of collision, in' September, 1850, upon Lake Huron, between a propeller called Monticello, and a schooner " called The ‘Northwestern, by which the schooner and her cargo were entirely lost.’ In April, 1851, Mollison, the owner of the schooner, libelled the propeller, then lying in the port of Buffalo.
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' Tais was an appeal from the circuit court of the United . States for the northern-district of New York., It was a case of collision, in' September, 1850, upon Lake Huron, between a propeller called Monticello, and a schooner " called The ‘Northwestern, by which the schooner and her cargo were entirely lost.’ In April, 1851, Mollison, the owner of the schooner, libelled the propeller, then lying in the port of Buffalo. Wilson, the master and claimant of the propeller, answered the libel, and much testimony was taken on both sides. In May. 1852, the district judge decreed that the libellant…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Guies
The appellee in this case filed his libel in the district court for the northern district of New York, against the steam-propeller Monticello, in a cause of collision.
The libel sets forth that the libellant is owner of the schooner Northwestern; that on the, 15th of September, 1850, the sehooner, with a cargo of salt, was on her voyage from the port of Oswego, in New York, to the port of Chicago, in Illinois; that about half-past eight o’clock in the evening, being about ten or twelve miles from Presque Isle, on Lake Huron, and about six miles from land, sailing with a fair breeze, on the…
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