The Our Friend

HOLLAND, District Judge.

The libelant in this case seeks to recover damages sustained by him as owner of a catboat, and for claims assigned to him against the steam tug Majestic, the result of a collision between these boats on the Delaware river, a little below the old Point House, near the Pennsylvania side, on a dark and somewhat cloudy night, at about 10:30 o’clock, May 30, 1904. Frederick S. Heard, the 'owner of the catboat, and some friends, had been down the river to Thompson’s Point spending Saturday and Sunday, and were returning home, having left two of the party at Washington Park.…