Ward v. The A. Rossiter

DRUMMOND, District Judge.

On the 27th of August. 1851, the steamer St. Louis had returned from her nightly trip from New Buffalo to Chicago, and had entered the river and passed a little above her wharf to wind. It was about three o'clock in the morning. There was no regular place at that time for steamers to turn. They winded where they could, though there was a place — the excavation— where it wras more convenient and wider than at other places. The St. Louis was in the act of turning, lying across the river (then two hundred and six feet wide only at that place, the St. Louis being one…