Truelson v. Whitney & Bodden Shipping Co.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree rejecting a claim of the appellants, the widow and minor daughter of J. H. Truelson, that the brigantine Geneva, by reason of negligence alleged, was liable in damages for the latter’s death; the appellants alleging that deceased’s death occurred without fault or negligence on his part. Those allegations were put in issue.

The circumstances of Truelson’s death are indicated by the following statement: The deceased and one Nelson operated a launch in the Port Arthur canal and slips thereof in the business of selling cold drinks and tobacco…