Pringle v. Michigan
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan
In Admiralty. Libel by Thomas Pringle and others, owners of the schooner Delaware, against the schooner Michigan, for collision. The district court found that the collision was the result of inevitable accident, and dismissed the libel. Libelants appeal. Reversed.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Circuit Judge.
In this case libelants and appellants seek to recover the damages sustained by the schooner Delaware from a collision with the schooner Michigan, which occurred about 2:40 or 3 p. m. on April 30,1890, at the westerly entrance of the St. Mary’s Falls canal. It is alleged in the libel, and established by the proof, that the schooner Delaware, having no cargo aboard, was bound on a voyage from Buffalo, N. Y., to Ashland, in the state of Wisconsin; that on the 29th April, 1890, she was locked through the St. Mary’s Falls ship canal at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. That, upon…
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