Boston Sand & Gravel Co. v. United States

BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the federal District Court for Massachusetts in an admiralty proceeding brought by the Boston Sand & Gravel Company, the owner of the steamer Cornelia, against the United States, under *279a special act of Congress approved May 15, 1922 (42 Stat. 1590), to recover damages sustained by tbe Cornelia in collision with tbe destroyer Bell in tho dredged channel of Broad Sound at tbe entrance to Boston Harbor, August 9, 1918.

The court below entered a decree dismissing tbe bill, and the libelant appealed.

The Cornelia was a steam, sand lighter,…