The Dorset
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. ” Suit in admiralty for collision by Arthur Eloyd Hughes, master of the British steamship Dorset, against the tug Pocahontas and the tug Crisfield and barge, the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Company, claimant, with cross-libel.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. ” Suit in admiralty for collision by Arthur Eloyd Hughes, master of the British steamship Dorset, against the tug Pocahontas and the tug Crisfield and barge, the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Company, claimant, with cross-libel. Decree holding both tugs in fault, and the Rambert’s Point Towboat Company, claimant of the Pocahontas, appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
[1] On the morning of January 25, 1917, the British steamship Dorset, with full cargo, starting to sea from *33Pier No. 4 at Rambert’s Point, Va., in charge of the tug Pocahontas, collided with barge No. 18 moving down the channel in tow of the tug Crisfield. For the resulting damage the master of the Dorset on January 30, 1917, filed a libel against both tugs and the barge. On February 7, 1917, the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Company, owner of the Crisfield and the harge, filed a libel against the Pocahontas and the Dorset. The causes were consolidated, and…
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