The Columbia

DE HAVEN, District Judge.

This is an action brought by the owners, master, and crew of the schooner J. Eppinger to- recover damages on account of a collision between that vessel and the steamer Columbia. The collision occurred between 4 and 5 o’clock on the afternoon of July 2, 1898, at a point in the Pacific Ocean about 68 miles north of San Francisco and 7 miles ofii shore. , At the time of the collision there was a light northwesterly breeze, and the Eppinger with all her sails set except her, fisherman’s staysail, and main topsail, was on the offshore tack, going in a direction W. by S. or…