The Ottawa
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Northern District of Illinois in a question of collision at night, on Lake Huron, between the steam propeller Ottawa and the schooner Caledonia, and by which the schooner was sunk; the decree in the Circuit as in the District Court having been against the steamer as in fault.
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Northern District of Illinois in a question of collision at night, on Lake Huron, between the steam propeller Ottawa and the schooner Caledonia, and by which the schooner was sunk; the decree in the Circuit as in the District Court having been against the steamer as in fault. The controversy was one chiefly of fact; whether, for example, there was any one at all on the steamer’s deck about the time of the collision besides the wheelsman then steering the vessel; whether the steamer showed lights as required; what the courses of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Amended libel alleged that the appellee was the owner of the schooner Caledonia; that on the sixteenth day oí September, 1860, she was engaged in prosecuting a voyage from Chicago to Buffalo, having on board a cargo of six thousand bushels of wheat, belonging to her owner; that, at eight o’clock in the evening of that day, when she was navigating in Lake Huron, eight miles northwesterly from Thunder Bay Light, she encountered the propeller Ottawa, bound up the lake, and that the propeller was so negligently and carelessly managed and navigated that a collision occurred between the two…
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