Western Transit Co. v. Brown

HOUGH, District Judge.

While the steamers Troy and E. P. Wilbur were running nearly alongside each other upon Lake St. Clair, *477they approached the steamer Mariposa, pursuing an opposite and nearly parallel course, and towing the barge Martha on a hawser. Through the concurrently negligent navigation of both Troy and Wilbur, the latter and smaller vessel fell within the suction influence of the Troy’s propeller in such manner that there immediately followed a rank sheer on the Wilbur’s part which caused or contributed to a serious collision between that steamer and the Martha. In the ensuing…