Miller v. The W. G. Hewes

BRADLEY, Circuit Justice.

James Miller sues the steamer W. G. Hewes, and her master George E. Tripp, for damages in a case of collision, and the case appears to be as follows: On the 17th of February, 1S6S, about one o’clock, p. m., the day being clear, the libellant, with his son, was in a skiff, used as an oyster boat, in Matagorda Bay, at Indianola, just starting out for the Big Bayou to gather oysters. The steamer W. G. Hewes was at the same time leaving her wharf at Indianola for her trip to Galveston, loaded pretty well down (her captain says about 8Yz feet) with the usual Texan cargo of…