The City of Boston
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Admiralty. Proceeding by the Winnisimmet Company, as owner of the ferryboat City of Boston, for limitation of liability, in which Mary R. Davenport and Vernon B. Davenport filed claims. On motion for the appointment of a commissioner to take proofs, and motion by petitioner for consolidation with other proceedings.
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In Admiralty. Proceeding by the Winnisimmet Company, as owner of the ferryboat City of Boston, for limitation of liability, in which Mary R. Davenport and Vernon B. Davenport filed claims. On motion for the appointment of a commissioner to take proofs, and motion by petitioner for consolidation with other proceedings. On motions by Mary D. and Vernon B. Davenport for the appointment of a commissioner to take proof of their claims, and on motions of Winnisimmet Company for consolidation of this case with case No. 134 (182 Fed. 179), in which the Eastern Dredging Company is petitioner. for…
1Opinion of the Court
DODGE, District Judge.
Whatever the title under which it may be docketed, this case is really that of the petition of the Winnisimmet . Company for limitation of liability, the proceedings in which, under the mandate of the Court of Appeals, are to be continued and completed according to the principles laid down by that court in its opinion.
The collision out of which the case arises is'now held by that court to have been due, not to the sole fault of the Eastern Dredging Company’s scow, as this court held, but to the fault of the scow and the fault as well of the petitioner’s ferryboat. Both…
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