The Dorset
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by Arthur Lloyd Hughes, master of the steamship Dorset, against the steam tugs Crisfield and Pocahontas and the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Company Carfloat No. 18, with cross-libels.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILL, District Judge.
These cases involve a collision between Carfloat No. 18 of the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Company and the steamship Dorset in the Elizabeth river, off Lambert’s Point piers, Norfolk, Va., on the morning of January 25, 1917, about 11 o’clock.
The original libel was filed by the Dorset against the Crisfield and car-float, and also the tug Pocahontas. The owners of the Crisfield and carfloat filed a cross-libel against the Dorset, and a separate libel against the Pocahontas, and the owners of the latter tug, the Lambert’s Point Towboat Company, filed its…
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