Pierre Corneille

DE HAVEN, District Judge.

These are cross-libels to recover damages resulting from a collision between the ship Larnaea and the bark Pierre Corneille. In Giles v. The Pierre Corneille the libel charges that the collision was caused solely by the fault of those in charge of the latter vessel, in this: that at and before the collision the Pierre Corneille was running free, and the Larnaea was sailing close-hauled, and that the former did not keep out of the way of the latter, as required by law. To this the owners of the Pierre Corneille answered, and in their libel against the Larnaea allege,…