Webster v. Disharoon

MOR RIA District Judge.

This is a libel in personam, brought by the owner of the schooner Ida Virginia against the owner of the schooner Margie J. Franklin to recover the value of the schooner Ida Virginia, which became a total loss because, during a storm, the schooner Margie J. Franklin dragged her anchor, and drifted down on her, and injured her so that she had to slip her cable, and went ashore. The allegation in the libel is that the Margie J. Franklin was not provided with sufficient anchors and cable to hold her in a storm, and that sufficient anchors were not put out on her, and…