The Commonwealth

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought by Ole Irgens and Axel Irgens, owners of the steamer Volund, and several members of her crew, against the steamer Commonwealth to recover their losses for the value of the steamer, loss oí personal effects, and personal injuries, said to aggregate $16,000, suffered by reason of a collision between the said steamer and the steamer Commonwealth in the Race, the easterly entrance to Dong Island Sound, on the 26th of September, 1908. The Commonwealth was also damaged to the extent, it is said, of $40,000.

The libel alleges that the Volund was…