United State v. Miller

WADDILL, Circuit Judge.

The libel in this case involves a collision between the steamship Lake Lida and the barge Maine, while in tow of the steam tug Peerless, which occurred about 4 o’clock p. m. on the 13th day of March, 1920, in the waters of Elizabeth River, off Lambert’s Point, Norfolk, Vá. The facts are briefly these:

The Lake Lida was a United States Shipping Board vessel, under charter to the United States Navy Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, fpr a voyage from Norfolk to Colon, Isthmus of Panama, with a cargo of coal for use of the government, the charter having been effected by the…