Hamilton & Merryman Co. v. Smith

Jenkins, District Judge.

This is a libel in personam by the owners of the schooner Butcher Boy against the owners of the tug George Nelson in a cause of collision. Upon the petition of the respondents the tug Jesse Spaulding was summoned as co-respondent under the fifty-ninth rule in admiralty, her owner intervening for his interest. The case was this: Early in the morning of September 29,1889, the schooner Butcher Boy was proceeding up Lake Michigan, at about four knots an hour, on a voyage from-Chicago, Ill., to Marinette, Wis., the wind being south, and the weather fair, $nd was some three…