Grays Harbor County v. Motorship Brimanger

Grays Harbor county and the city of Aberdeen, municipal corporations, owned and operated (under permit from the Federal government) several submarine cables crossing the Chehalis river a short distance above the point where the river flows into Grays Harbor. The cables were buried in the river bed at a point a little below the west bridge. Notices of the fact that cables crossed the river at that place were given by signs posted on the bridge.

During the month of December, 1929, the motorship Brimanger, a vessel of over 415 feet in length, 54 feet beam, 8,200 dead weight tons, drawing 11 feet…