The Messenger

HUTCHESON, District Judge.

Linde Dredging Company, owner of the dredge Badger, sues Suderman & Young, Inc., and the tug Messenger, to recover damages sustained by the Badger when the tug Messenger backed into her on December 15, 192&.

The collision occurred at 3:30 p. m. in open daylight in clear weather, in the vicinity of No. 9 Bell Buoy near the North jetty entrance to Galveston Harbor, where the steamship Brazos had gone aground hard and fast on a sand bar.

Some short time before the collision, the tug Messenger, with a barge in tow, had come out to the Brazos, put a line over to her, and…