Lake Drummond Canal & Water Co. v. John L. Roper Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Libel by the John L. Roper Lumber Company against the Marshall-Towing Company, Incorporated, wherein the libelee filed petition alleging fault for the accident against the Lake Drummond Canal & Water Company, which denied liability.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Libel by the John L. Roper Lumber Company against the Marshall-Towing Company, Incorporated, wherein the libelee filed petition alleging fault for the accident against the Lake Drummond Canal & Water Company, which denied liability. From a decree awarding libelant costs and damages, and dividing the damages equally between the Marshall Towing Company, Incorporated, and the Lake Drum-mond Canal & Water Company, the latter appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCHARD, Circuit Judge.
The above-entitled appeals are substantially one case. These, appeals are from a decree entered in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, in which the libelant was awarded the sum of $1,766.94 with interest, as costs and damages sustained by it on account of an injury to a barge under charter to it and while in its possession. The injury to the lighter or barge was caused while it was being towed into one of the locks of the canal of the Lake Drummond Canal & Water Company, in consequence of a collision or contract of the forward…
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