Sewerage & Water Board v. The Cumulus

LEE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, a municipal corporation, as plaintiff below, brought suit' in rem against the steamship Cumulus, in the District Court for the Parish of Orleans, La., to recover $15,000 for damages alleged to have been sustained through negligence bn the part of the crew when the anchor of the ship became entangled in and severed the Water Board’s power cable lines extending across the Mississippi River from Canal Street, in New Orleans, on the east side to Algiers on the west side. The case was removed to the federal court by the Netherlands 'Government, as owner of the…