The Hesper

This cause came on to be beard on the transcript and evidence, and was argued. Whereupon the court, being advised in the premises, finds the following as the facts of the case:(1) That about 5:45 A. m. of the twelfth day of December, 1882, the steam-ship Hesper, bound on a voyage from Liverpool to Galveston, being out of her course, run aground, at the south-west side of Galveston island, about 20 miles south-west from Galveston, and nearly opposite the lifesaving station. The Hesper was an iron propeller, and built in Hartlepool, England, in 1881, at a cost of £22,000. Her registered tonnage…