The Thomas J. Cleaver

DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree entered in the District Court Of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sustaining in part and dismissing in part a libel in admiralty. The libel was filed by the appellants to recover damages for injuries to the barge Thomas. J. Cleaver, and to her cargo, which were occasioned by a collision between the barge and a drawbridge, while the barge was being towed by the tug Mary C, McNally, and by her subsequent sinking.

The steam tug McNally was towing two barges, the Cleaver and the Rita Dempsey from…