The Capt. Jack

PLATT, District Judge.

The petitioner herein is the T. A. Scott Company, a corporation located at New London, Conn. Said company alleges: That on or about February 7, 1905, it was the owner of a derrick scow or lighter called the Capt. Jack, which, with its equipment, was used to raise sunken vessels and other work of like character. That on said day, while engaged in raising a sunken vessel in New Haven Harbor, one of the bolts which held the strap at the end of the boom broke, and the strap and bolts, in falling to the deck, struck Andrew J. Perkins, a marine engineer, who was standing on…