Bee Line Transp. Co. v. Connecticut Fire Ins.

BYEB-S, District Judge.

Hearing on exceptions to answer which pleads no defense, and puts libelant to its formal proof.

The libelant seeks to recover from the respondent the amount alleged, to be due under *817a marine insurance policy because of the following circumstances:

The libelant’s tug Wyoming in November of 1927 was towing four vessels containing coal, including its own numbered barges 891 and 896; these two sank while the tow was en route to Woods Hole, from New London, when in the vicinity of Point Judith.

The circumstances! appear in the ease of The Wyoming (D. C.) 58 F.(2d) 789. The…