Wood Towing Corp. v. Southern Transp. Co.

WADDILL,'Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk, giving judgments against appellant and its sureties aggregating $28,645.76, in libel proceedings instituted in that court against certain vessels of appellant. •

The facts are: On Sept. 2, 1927, a collision occurred in the Southern branch of the Elizabeth river about noon, between the Norwegian steamship Henrik Ibsen and the barges Champlain and Charleston, as the steamship, proceeding north through the opening of the Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line…