The J. P. Schuh

TOULMIN, District Judge.

The material facts in this case are few and- simple, and without serious conflict. There is a conflict in the evidence as to some minor questions involved in the case.

The evidence on the part of the libelants was in substance that they *456were hired by Mr. Spottswood to go up the river with the steamer J. P. Schuh, and barges in tow, four in number, to get cross-ties. They were to load the barges with cross-ties, and return with the steamer and the barges, loaded with the cross-ties, to Mobile; the barges thus loaded being in tow of the steamer. It did not appear from…