Jose v. Stetson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fullerton, J.

The respondents hired the appellants to tow from the mouth of Whiskey creek in Clallam county, Washington, to Ballard, Washington, a certain boom of logs consisting of six sections. The appellants, while towing the logs with their tugboat, encountered a storm in the Straits of Juan de Fuca, during which the boom was torn loose from the tugboat, drifted away and was lost. The respondents sue in this action to recover the value of the logs, alleging ownership in themselves, *649the value of the logs at $1,925, and that they were lost because of…