The El Oriente

BYERS, District Judge.

Hearing on exceptions to commissioner’s report ascertaining damages in a cause in admiralty.

The coal barge O. W. No. 21 was in collision with claimant’s steamship El Oriente in the North River in this district, opposite Hoboken, N. J., in the afternoon of July 21, 1926.

The damage thus occasioned was the subject of inquiry by the commissioner pursuant to interlocutory decree, and he hás recommended the entry of a final decree in favor of the libelant, the owner of the barge, against the said steamship, the claimant, in the sum of $2,500 and interest. The correctness of…