The Barranca

BURNS, District Judge.

Libelant, as owner of the steamship Colorado Springs, claims damages resulting from a collision with said vessel by the respondent tug Barranca and its tow, the steamship San Pasquale, in the Mississippi river at New Orleans, at or about 5:45 o’clock a. m., on February 14, 1923.

The Colorado Springs was coming up the river along the east bank, showing proper lights, and sighted, at or about one mile off and over toward the west bank', the star-, board light of the San Pasqual. The river is somewhat more than a half mile wide in that reach. The Colorado Springs sounded a…