The J. G. Lindauer
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Admiralty. Suit in rem to recover damages for injuries to a steam tug caused by coming in contact with a mooring line extended across a slip between two wdiarves, and for personal injuries suffered by the captain of the tug. Decree for libelants.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
Two libels are included in this case, one by the captain of the steam tug Carlyle to recover damages for personal injuries which he suffered, and the other by the owner for damages to the tug, caused by a hawser stretched across a slip between two wharves in Bellingham Bay, known, respectively, as the “Sehome” dock and the “Bellingham Bay Improvement Company’s” dock. On the day of the accident the steam schooner G. C. Lindauer arrived at Bellingham to receive a cargo of lumber, and was assign*450ed to a berth in the slip next to the improvement company’s dock. Two other…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The Blue JacketSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
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