The Howard Reeder
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal and Cross-Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore; John C. Rose, Judge. _ _ Suit in admiralty for collision by Frederick Hale, master of the barge Elizabeth E. Vane, against the steamship Columbia, the Chesapeake Steamship Company, claimant, and the tug Howard Reeder, brought in under admiralty rule 59 (29 Sup. Ct. xlvi). Decree against the Columbia and the Howard Reeder, and their claimants appeal.
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Appeal and Cross-Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore; John C. Rose, Judge. _ _ Suit in admiralty for collision by Frederick Hale, master of the barge Elizabeth E. Vane, against the steamship Columbia, the Chesapeake Steamship Company, claimant, and the tug Howard Reeder, brought in under admiralty rule 59 (29 Sup. Ct. xlvi). Decree against the Columbia and the Howard Reeder, and their claimants appeal. This is an appeal and cross-appeal from a decree of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, in admiralty,…
1Opinion of the CourtWaddiee, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The averments of fault thus stated by the vessels against each other are many in number, but when considered in the light of the testimony and the findings of fact of the lower court it will be found that but few of them are meritorious. Those against the barge were entirely withdrawn at the trial, as were those of the steamship- against the tug, and the tug against the steamship, that they were not each properly *931manned and equipped; at all events, no evidence to that effect was introduced by either side. The averment as to the failure of the Columbia to…
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