The Mexico Maru
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by the Booth Fisheries Company of Delaware and others against the Japanese steamer Mexico Maru, Osaka Shoshen Kabushiki Kaisha, claimant, and the City of Seattle, inter-vener, with cross-libel by claimant.
1Opinion of the Court
CUSHMAN, District Judge.
The case is one of collision between two vessels, and the questions involved are almost entirely of fact. The Mexico Maru, hereinafter called the Miexico, a steamer 400 feet in length, at 12:55 a. m., October 30, 1918, left her wharf on the East waterway at the port of Seattle for Tacoma. At 1:33 a. m. she was in collision with the A. J. Fuller, hereinafter called the Fuller, a full-rigged American ship, 229 feet long, which was lying at anchor within a certain portion of Elliott Bay designated, in the year 1915, by a city ordinance of Seattle as an “anchorage…
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