District Court, D. Maryland July 3, 1913 (The Jacob Luckenbach)

ROSE, District Judge.

There was a libel and a cross-libel. By consent the cases have been consolidated. Two vessels were in collision. Each claims to be free from fault and says that the other was solely to blame. Both of them are ocean-going steamships. One of them, the Sigmaringen, flies the German, the other, the Jacob Luckenbach, the American, flag.