White v. Peshtigo Co.

This is a libel for damages sustained by a collision which occurred on the waters of Lake Michigan, seven or eight miles north of the entrance to Chicago harbor, about 2 o’clock in the morning of October 1,1882, between the propeller Tempest, owned by the libelants, and tho barge Peshtigo, in tow of the propeller Boscobel; both the Boscobel and tho Peshtigo being owned by respondent. The commissioner found by this report that tho collision was occasioned by negligence on the part of the Boscobel in requiring the Tempest to pass on her starboard side, and in handling her tow, and on the part…