Legal Opinion
The Lizzie M. Walker
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 6, 1925No. 2303, 2304PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
On the night of January 20, 1923, the tug Lizzie M. Walker, having in tow the empty scow B on a hawser of 300 feet, was steaming up the Choptank river on the eastern store of Maryland. The steamer Virginia, going down the river, struck and sunk the scow. The tug was owned by the Baltimore Transportation Company, the scow by II. L. Walker, and the steamer by the Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway Company. The District Court held the owner of tho scow blameless and the owners of both the tug and the steamer at fault.
At the time of the collision there was only one…
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