Cartier v. The F. & P. M.
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
In Admiralty. Libel for damages.
1Opinion of the CourtDyer, J.
This is a suit in admiralty, brought by the libelant, a citizen of Michigan, against the steam-vessel F. & P. M. No. 2, owned and employed in navigation by the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Company, to recover the value of a raft of logs, which, on the eighteenth day of September, 1886, were being towed by a tug from a point on the east shore of Lake Michigan to Ludington. The libel alleges that the raft or boom of logs was being towed into the harbor of Ludington; that the steamer, in entering the same port, negligently ran into the raft, striking it with such force as to break the boom,…
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