The Britannia
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Suit to recover for loss of scows in tow. On the 24th day of July, 1905, Charles W. Eaton, representing the Standard Dredging Company, a corporation, contracted with the American Towing & Lightering Company of Baltimore for the towage of four scows from Mobile, Ala., to Baltimore, Md.
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In Admiralty. Suit to recover for loss of scows in tow. On the 24th day of July, 1905, Charles W. Eaton, representing the Standard Dredging Company, a corporation, contracted with the American Towing & Lightering Company of Baltimore for the towage of four scows from Mobile, Ala., to Baltimore, Md. The four scows left Mobile in tow of respondent’s tug Buccaneer, and in due course put into Charleston S. C. At this point it was deemed desirable to divide the tow, in view of the voyage around Hatteras, and the towing company thereupon agreed to furnish their tug Tormentor to assist in the tow.…
1Opinion of the Court
WADDIRL,, District Judge,
(after stating the facts). This libeL was filed to recover for the value of two scows lost.
*497Various assignments of negligence are made by the parties one against the other; but the case turns upon whether the accident arose because of the unseaworthiness of the libelant’s scows, or the failure of the tug to exercise the degree of care and caution required of it for the safe conduct of her tow, including, particularly, the furnishing of a proper hawser or hawsers with which to perforin the service, or from said causes combined. The duty of the libelant to furnish scows…
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