Poppe v. Bigelow
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
In Admiralty. Libel by Albert Poppe and others against Anson A. Bigelow to recover damages for a collision. Decree for libelants.
1Opinion of the Court
SEAMAN, District Judge.
On November 1, 1891, at about 5:15 A. M., a collision occurred between the schooner William Aldrich and the barge Parana, in tow of the steamer Bobert Holland, (with the barge Stevenson,) at a point on Lake Michigan four to six miles off the west of Wisconsin shore, and five or six miles north of Cana Island light. The Aldrich was a three-masted schooner of 180 tons burden, laden with lumber, bound from Nahama, Mich., to Milwaukee, Wis. She had her three jibs, foresail, and mainsail set, and her mizzen furled, and was on a course of S. by W. £ W., when sighted. The wind…
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