The Kentucky

ADAMS, District judge.

This action was brought by Charles G. Hill and another, owners of the steamship Exeter City and bailees of the cargo on board, against the steamship Kentucky, to recover the damages, alleged to amount to about $60,000, suffered by reason of a collision which occurred between those vessels at 5.32 o’clock P. M. on the 27th day of May, 1905, just outside of the buoys of Gedney Channel.

The Exeter City, 286 feet long, left her anchorage near 14th street, Hoboken, with a miscellaneous cargo, including some cattle on deck, bound for Bristol, England, about 2 o’clock P. M. She…