The Nettie L. Tice

THOMAS, District Judge.

This action is brought by the owner of the canal-boat Frank X, which was in tow alongside of the tug Nettie F. Tice, on October 30, 1899, at 6 o’clock p. m., when the fireboat Zophar Mills, belonging to the city of New York, collided with the canal boat, doing the injury. Upon the trial it appeared plainly that the fireboat was at fault/and it also appeared that the Frank X and the Tice were each at fault, if each -was liable for failure to observe inspectors’ rule 11, which is as follows:

“For the government of pilots of vessels propelled by steam, gas, fluid, naphtha,…