The Admiral Fiske

On Objection to Interrogatories.

NETERER, District Judge.

The petitioner seeks total exemption from liability, or, if denied, limitation of liability to the vessel and pending freight, to all claimants by reason of a collision between the steamship Admiral Fiske, of the petitioner, and the Floridian, owned by the Ameriean-Hawaiian Steamship Company, on the high seas, because of the loss of the Floridian and its cargo.

Mailliard & SehmeideE were owners of cargo on the Floridian. The petitioner asserts it was without fault, and claims the loss was occasioned by the default of the Floridian, its…