Galena Nav. Co. v. Sinclair Nav. Co.

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in an admiralty suit in personam awarding to the owner of the oil barge Badger damages on account of the stranding of that barge while she was under charter to the Galena Navigation Company and being towed for it by the D. W. Ryan Towboat Company. The libel seeks to recover the cost of painting the entire bottom of the barge and replacing two indented plates, and, as incidental to such cost, the expenses of towing to and from dry dock, of dry-docking, and of a survey to ascertain the extent of the damage.

The charterer and the towboat…