The Exchange

WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.

The libel herein was, I think, properly dismissed, upon either of several grounds, involving fault in the bark Ellingwood, the libellants’ vessel, injured by the collision with the Exchange, and also on the ground, irrespective of fault in the bark, that the Exchange was itself free from fault.

It is true, that having respect only to the private interests and merely personal rights of the parties, the law has no favorites. Owners of ferry-boats have not, in their own behalf, any exclusive privileges of navigation over owners of other vessels. But it does not follow that…