Wilson v. City of Chicago

This suit is brought by the owners of the steam-ship Wallula, and the underwriters upon her cargo, to recover for damages sustained by said steam-ship and her cargo from a collision with the south abutment of the Wells Street bridge, in the Chicago river, on the 9th of April, 1888. The original libel made the city of Chicago, the Forth Chicago Street Railroad Company, the Fitzsimmons & Connell Company, and the Vessel Owners’Towing Company, respondents, charging them all with having contributed to the damage sustained by the libelant; but the suit has since been dismissed as against the North…