The W. C. Block

BYERS, District Judge.

Hearing on exceptions to commissioner’s report fixing damages. The libellant sued as owner of the barge “W. C. Block” and bailee of the cargo laden thereon, and on behalf of the bargee whose personal effects were lost as the result of her sinking.

The interlocutory decree awarded to the libellant having been affirmed, the commissioner proceeded to his duties, and his report is assailed, not as to the amount of damages, but because the claimant professes to be aggrieved because the title to the cargo was in the vendee instead of the vendor who paid the loss.

Manifestly such…