The Homer
District Court, D. Washington
Suit in rem to recover damages for a personal injury caused by the steam schooner Homer running into the brigantine Blakely while the libelant was working as a carpenter on the latter vessel, which was at the time moored to a dock in Seattle Harbor. Hearing on the merits. Decree for libelant.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
From the evidence in this case I find that the particulars of the mishap from which this suit arises are as follows: At about 7:45 a. m., April 26, 1899, the steam schooner Homer was making her way from the Moran Company’s shipyard to the Schwabacher dock, in the harbor of Seattle, which dock extends from the eastern shore westwardly into the bay. It was the intention of her captain to lay the Homer across the .outward end of the dock, where she was to take on board some spars or other timber. The distance from the shipyard to the Schwabacher dock is, approximately,…
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