Exner Sand & Gravel Corporation, as Owner of the Barge Florence E., Libelant-Appellant v. Petterson Lighterage & Towing Corp.

HINCKS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the libelant, Exner Sand & Gravel Corporation, as owner of the Barge Florence E., from a decree holding that the respondent, Petterson Lighterage & Towing Corp., as charterer of said barge, although concededly liable in the amount of $525 for damage to the barge’s bow suffered in the course of the *2charter, was not liable for bottom damage in the amount of some $11,000 sustained after redelivery of the barge or for side damage in the amount of some $7,000 first observed one week after redelivery. The facts are sufficiently stated in Judge Waterman’s…