The Orient

CHOATE, District Judge.

This is a suit for seamen’s wages, and after default of the owners of the steamer and a decree in favor of the libellants but before the sale of tbe vessel, the insurers on the hull of a 'canal-boat which was totally lost by a collision with the Orient while the canal-boat was in tow of another steamer, applied by petition for leave to intervene for their interest and to have the decree opened and to be allowed to defend. They claim that the Orient is responsible for the collision on the ground of negligence; that the value of the Orient is not sufficient to pay in full…