Beaufort & Morehead R. Co. v. The Damyank

GILLIAM, District Judge.

These áre the facts found by the Court:

Libellants are, respectively, owner and operator of a railway bridge over the Newport River betwéen Morehead City and Beaufort, North Carolina. Respondent, Lynch Brothers, is the owner and operator of the tug and barge involved'.

The railway bridge runs in a generally east and west direction parallel to and twelve feet north of a State Highway bridge. The channel runs generally north and south, and there is an opening of eighty feet in the draws of both bridges. To the north of the railway bridge draw and to the south of the…