The Barge No. 4
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. 'Libel by Lillie Wilkins, administratrix of the estate of Alexander Wilkins, deceased, against the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk barge No. 4, and the steam tug Delmar, to recover for loss of life caused by collision, in which the administrators of Edward Bishop and others intervened. Decree for libelant and petitioners.
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In Admiralty. 'Libel by Lillie Wilkins, administratrix of the estate of Alexander Wilkins, deceased, against the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk barge No. 4, and the steam tug Delmar, to recover for loss of life caused by collision, in which the administrators of Edward Bishop and others intervened. Decree for libelant and petitioners. This libel was filed to recover for loss of the life of Alexander Wilkins, on the 29th day of October, 1916, about 6 o’clock p. m., caused by a collision at a point northerly of and in the vicinity of the can buoy at the entrance to the West Norfolk channel…
1Opinion of the CourtWaddill, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). From the above statement of the case, it will readily be observed that the “parties are utterly at variance as to how the accident occurred, and where the collision took place. Libelant insists that the launch in which decedents lost their lives approached -from the West Norfolk side of the channel, and was in collision with the barge on its port side; and the respondent, that the launch approached on its starboard, the Norfolk, or eastern, side of the channel. Respondent asserts that the collision occurred at a point about opposite Merchandise Pier No. 2,…
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