The Moran No. 16

GODDARD, District Judge.

The libel-ant seeks to recover contribution in general average from the lighter Moran No. 16 and the Moran Towing & Transportation Com*77pany, her owners, for water damage sustained by a portion of her cargo of sugar in an effort to extinguish a fire which occurred on the lighter- on April 24, 1922. At the time the Moran No. 16 was under a per diem charter to the Three Star line, which was also the owner of the steamship Andree. The Moran No. 16 was being used to receive cargo which was being discharged from the Andree, which was made fast to a pier at the Erie Basin,…