In re Wright & Cobb Lighterage Co.

BYERS, District Judge.

The claimant, in a limitation proceeding now pending before the commissioner appointed “to take proof and to report to this Court * * ® his findings as to the amount or value of the petitioner’s interest in the steam tug * * ® and the amount of the claimant’s damages,” seeks by this motion to induce the court to reverse a ruling of the commissioner, touching the order of proof before him, as to the value of the petitioner’s interest in the vessel.

The question of practice presented is deemed to be of sufficient importance to enlist the affidavits of three well-known…