District Court, S.D. New York April 20, 1909 (The Frederick E. Ives)

ADAMS, District Judge.

The owner of the tug Frederick E. Ives seeks herein to limit and contest its liability for the loss of six coal laden barges, bound from points near New York for New Haven and New London, Connecticut, in a hawser tow. The barges were the Fannie Preston and the T. M. Righter in the hawser tier, the Edward F. Cullen and the H. W. Somers in the second tier and the Joseph W.