The Grand Republic

Brown, D. J.

On the twenty-second of June, 1880, a libel was filed in the above case by the libellants, as owners of the steam-boat Adelaide, for damages from her being sunk in a collision with the Grand Republic, on the nineteenth of June, through the alleged fault of the latter. At the time of the loss of the Adelaide the present petitioners, the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, held a mortgage upon the Adelaide, on which the sum of $20,000 was owing. A portion of the loss has been paid to the mortgagees by certain insurance companies, in whose behalf also, as well as for themselves, the *399petit…