The Furnessia

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought by John Bernet and Richard K. Snow, the part owners and agents of the schooner William Bisbee, to recover the damages arising from a collision between the schooner and the steamship Furnessia about 1:45 o’clock A. M. of the 15th day of May, 1904, some 15 miles east of Fire Island Lightship in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Bisbee, loaded with' oak timber and a small amount of general cargo, was bound from Gallick’s Landing, Virginia, to Rock-land, Maine. The steamship, with passengers and general cargo, was bound from Glasgow to New York. The weather…