The Westhall
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Suit for collision.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILL, District Judge.
On the morning of the 3d day of April, 1896, about 9 :30 o’clock, as the libelant’s steam tug Peerless was proceeding down the Elizabeth river with seven barges in tow, the tow being some 1,320 feet in length, the respondent’s steamer Westhall, an ocean-going steamship, collided with the E. E. Jackson No. 4, the rear barge in the tow.
The contention of those in charge of the tug and tow is that it became necessary and desirable, by reason of the condition of the wind, tor the tow to cross from the eastern to the western side of the channel at a point between Cranv…
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