The Mary Patten

LOWELL, District Judge.

The parties have agreed to accept the assessor’s report upon all matters of fact, and have submitted to me the questions of salvage and of costs. The steamer took the schooner in tow after the collision, and. still later, hired a tug that completed the service. When deciding the general merits of the case, I intimated the opinion that towage might perhaps be allowed; and I then understood that the libel for salvage would not be pressed if the steamer was found to be in fault. But my decision being that both vessels were in fault, the question has been brought up again.…