The Charlotte

WADDILL, District Judge.

These libels were filed to recover damages arising from the loss of the lives of the libelants’ intestates, respectively, in a collision between the respondent’s steamship Charlotte and the schooner Annie M. Harris, the causes being heard together by consent of parties, as they depend, so far as the collision is concerned, upon the same state of facts. The Charlotte, an iron screw steam vessel of 1,746 tons register, 1,300 horse power engines, of a speed of some 15 knots per hour, owned by the Chesapeake Steamship Company, of Baltimore City, and plying between the…