The Belknap
District Court, D. Massachusetts
[In admiralty. Libel by the owner of a ballast lighter against the steam-tug Belknap for collision. The libellant was owner of a small ballast lighter, which was made fast alongside the ship Archer in the dock of a wharf in Boston, on the 23d February, 1873, when the steam-tug Belknap came into the dock to tow the ship Nonantum, which was lying on the opposite side from the Archer and a little higher up the dock, round to a dry dock for repairs.
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[In admiralty. Libel by the owner of a ballast lighter against the steam-tug Belknap for collision. The libellant was owner of a small ballast lighter, which was made fast alongside the ship Archer in the dock of a wharf in Boston, on the 23d February, 1873, when the steam-tug Belknap came into the dock to tow the ship Nonantum, which was lying on the opposite side from the Archer and a little higher up the dock, round to a dry dock for repairs. There was not room to pass if the tug should be lashed alongside the Nonan-tum, and she gave a line to the latter; and the libellant’s evidence…
1Opinion of the Court
LOWELL, District Judge.
I wish to repeat that these cases should be brought on as speedily as possible, jrhile the witnesses are at hand, and the matter is fresh in their minds. The court will always, as heretofore, make every effort to find time' for speedy trials of admiralty causes. In this case we have lost the testimony of the master of the Nonantum, which would have been of most material assistance in settling the difficult question of fact involved in the issue. There is no doubt that either the ship Nonan-tum or the tug, or both, are responsible for this damage; for the lighter was…
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