The Maggie Willett
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Libel by the owner, master, and crew of the fishing schooner Dido, of Gloucester, against the British schooner Maggie Willett, of St. Johns, New Brunswick, and her cargo, for salvage.
1Opinion of the CourtNelson, J.
At sunrise on the morning of December 31, 1885, the Dido, then on a fishing voyage on George’s banks, in latitude 41 deg. 9 min. N., and longitude 66 deg. 30 min. W., fell in with the British schooner Maggie Willett, in a disabled condition, flying a signal of distress. It appears from the protest of the master, and the other evidence in the case, that the Maggie Willett sailed from Halifax on the twenty-fifth of December, 1885, bound for New York, with a cargo of dried and pickled fish. On the day following she encountered a violent gale from N. E., in which all her sails were torn or blown…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The Lovett PeacockDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1867
3Cited by2 opinions
- Duff v. MerrittCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1898
- The Fair OaksDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1913