Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Marine, p. 1

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wa n & it unk oT MA- nay oat LOF. | 82 | D'Alton McCarthy, who looked after MARINE. The City of Midland arrived Sunday afternoon about three o'clock. The steamer was delayed in the Soo River by fog and aleo by having to take on coal at Jwen Sound, The supply of, coal at the Soo was exhausted when the Midland arrived there. The suit of the G,N, Transit Co against the Alliance anda number of other insurance companies to recover the amount of policies on the steamer Baltic which was burned here, was heard by Justice Armour in Toronto on Thureday and Friday. After a great deal of evidence bad been heard, Mr. Walter Nesbitt, who appeared for the insurance company, and Mr, : the interests of the G. N, T, Co, ad) dressed the jury. The jury, which was outabout four bourse, concluded that the veasel was worth $15.10 at the lume of the fire and that the value of the engines and boilers as they lay at the dock subsequent to the fire wae $3,000. The insurance companies were therefore responsible for §12.000, Mr, Nesbitt. raised the point that there was salvage to the amount of $395 which ought to be taken Into account. Mr, McCarthy argued this contention, but His Lordship decided in favor-of counsel for the defendant. | Af A TS EP TEP Es whe | Onde had A cil « limte vac yen neat for tive engl has the Orn has arc

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