Jacobson v. Suderman & Young, Inc.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The steam tug Mariner, having in tow a dredge, three barges, 18 pairs of pontoons, an anchor barge, and a launch — the tow being between 600 and 700 feet in length — started from Lynehburg, Tex., for Galveston at about 5:30 in the afternoon of November 19, 1924. Between 8 and 9 o’clock that night, after the tug with its tow had passed Morgan’s Point, the tug went aground in the bank to the side of the channel, and remained aground there until about 7 o’clock the next morning, when, after being pulled off by another tug, it proceeded on its voyage -with the tow. The…