Blackburn v. The Wellington

This is an action upon a contract for services rendered the steamer Wellington by the master of the steamer Montserrat. Both vessels were at the time engaged in transporting coal from Departure Bay, in British Columbia, to the port of San Francisco. On the 24th of April last the Wellington sailed from that bay for San Francisco with a cargo of 2,350 tons of coal, and in the morning of the second day after sailing, without any apparent cause, lost all the blades of her propeller. She had not sufficient sail-power to give her master any control over her course, and she was therefore subject to…