The L. T. C. NO. 6

MOSCOWITZ, District Judge.

A hearing has been had on the exceptions of respondent Val-Line, Inc., to the interrogatories propounded by the claimant-respondent Russell Bros. Towing Co., Inc.

According to the pleadings the Lake Tankers Corporation, as owner of the tank barge L.T.C. No. 6, the libellant herein, on or about February 19, 1943, chartered the barge L.T.C. No. 6 to respondent Val-Line, Inc. It is alleged that the barge was thereafter returned in a damaged condition. The respondent employed Russell Bros. Towing Co., Inc., claimant-respondent, to tow the L.T.C. No. 6 from Mt. Vernon, New…