Legal Opinion
The Western Star
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided December 9, 1907No. 35PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit for salvage.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, District Judge.
Libel for salvage. The Western Star is a steel freight steamer, 412 feet in length, 50 feet beam, and 25 feet in depth, 7,000 tons burden. She was built in 1903, at a cost of $265,-' 000, and was worth that sum at the time she was stranded, November 29, 1905. She -left Toledo, Ohio, for Ft. William, Canada, in the lat*490ter part of November, without cargo, in command of Capt. Patrick J. Griffin. During the evening of' November 27, 1905, while near Isle Royale, she encountered a heavy northeast gale, the worst storm ever experienced on Lake Superior. With her ballast tanks…
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