Legal Opinion

The Blue Jacket

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 4, 1892No. 241PublishedCited by 63 opinions

APPEAL EEOM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF WASHINGTON. The case is stated, in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatci-iford

On the 11th of June, 1885, about two o’clock in the morning, the. steam-tug Tacoma, was towing the bark Colusa, of about 1200 tons burden, laden with lumber and bound on a voyage to San Francisco, California, from Port Townsend, in the Territory of Washington, to Cape Flattery, the bark being towed by a hawser about 150 fathoms long, and the stern of the tug being about 750 feet ahead of the stem of the bark. When the tug and the bark were about four miles to the north of Ediz Hook light, in the Straits of Fuca, in the Territory of Washington, they were steering west-southwest half west, anu…

2Cases cited8 opinions

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  5. The ManitobaSupreme Court of the United States · 1887

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