Peacock v. Three Million Feet of Lumber

DE HAVEN, District Judge.

On September 30,1898, the steamer Whitesboro, bound on a voyage from Mendocino to Tort Harford, discovered, adrift upon the ocean, the raft of lumber mentioned in the libel, and made fast to and towed the same into the port of Santa Cruz. The lumber referred to bad, some time before being thus picked up. broken off from a larger raft while being towed to the pon of San Francisco. Upon arriving at Santa Cruz, the master of the Whiles boro communicated with the owners of the steamer, and received orders from them to let go of the raft, and proceed upon his voyage. The…