Southern Pacific Co. v. Haglund

These two suits in admiralty, which were brought in. the federal court for northern California, arose out of a collision between the ferryboat Thoroughfare and the steamship Enterprise in charge of the tug Relief, in the channel of San Antonio Creek, known as the Oakland Estuary, which resulted in damages to the Thoroughfare and the Enterprise, and the killing of Ernest Haglund, a workman on the Enterprise. In No. 472 the administratrix of Haglund’s estate libelled the Southern-Pacific Co., the owner of the Thoroughfare, and the Rolph Navigation & Coal Co.,-the owner of the Relief, for the…