Dameron-White Co. v. Angola Transfer Co.

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant filed a libel to recover damages of upward of $22,000 for the loss of the barge Mary and> her cargo, consisting of levee building machinery and equipment, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the steamer J. B. Lewis, owned by appellee, in towing the barge. The District Court found in favor *13of appellee and dismissed the libel, to reverse which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

The allegation of negligence in the libel is substantially, this: That in towing the barge in the Mississippi river the Lewis ran at too high a rate of speed, and, as the tow…