The Copperfield

ERVIN, District Judge.

This is a libel, seeking damages against the nonresident owner of a steamship for a collision at sea. Foreign attachment was prayed, and issued and served on the American Bauxite Company, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Ponnsylvannia, but doing business in the port of Mobile, Ala. Tbo garnishee appeared and filed its answer, from which it appears that it was operating the steamer Dea, the colliding vessel, under a charter made June 25, 1924, for 12 months and 3 weeks, more or less, the charter hire to be paid in New York in cash.

The answer claims that the…