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It may be added that if the three file wrappers were competent as evidence, no sufficient legal excuse is shown for not having sooner applied for leave to introduce them. The motion is denied in all its branches.
CROWELL, MASTER OF STEAM-SHIP ROMAN 0. THE SOHOONER THERESA WOLF.-
(District Oourt, E. D. Pennsylvania. October 1,1880.)
In Admiralty. In this case a libel in rem had been filed by the master of the schooner Theresa Wolf against the steam-Ship Roman, for damages caused by a collision off Great Egg harbor, alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of those in charge of the steam-Ship. The owners of the latter filed an answer denying negligence on the part of the steamer, and alleging that the cause of the accident was the neglect of those in charge of the schooner to exhibit a torch. Subsequently, the schooner not being within the jurisdiction of the court', a cross libel was filed by the master of the steam-ship, on behalf of himself and of the crew and of the owners of the steamship, alleging that when the collision occurred the master and crew of the schooner abandoned her, whereupon the master of the steam-ship sent men on board, fastened a line to her, and towed her into New York harbor, for which services he claimed salvage, and asked that the original libellant might be ordered to enter security in the usual form and amount, ""Reported by Frank P. Prichard, Esq., of the Philadelphia bar.
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or that, proceedings on his libel might be stayed, under ad.miralty rule 58 of the United States supreme court.To this cross libel the original libellant filed interaZia the following exception: Second. Because the cross libel in this case does not contain such counter claim arising out of the same cause of 0.0tion for which the original libel was filed, as is contemplated by rule 58 of the supreme court in admiralty. John A. Toomey, (Henry R. Edmunds with him,) for exceptions. H. G· Ward, contra. , BUTLER, D. J. The second exception is well taken. The claim set out in the cross libel does not grow or arise out of the cause of action on which the libelis founded. The case it not, therefore, embraced in the fifty-third admiralty rule prescribed by the supreme court. Cross libel dismissed.
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Libel on Policy of Insurance. Hall McAZlister, for libellants. Milton Andros, for respondent. HOFFMAN, D. J. Section 2681 of the Civil Code of California is as follows: "In every marine insurance upon a ship, 01' freight or freightage or upon anything which is the subject of .Rulo 53 is as follows: U Whenever a crOBB libel is filed upon any counter claim arising out of the same causo of action for which the original libel was filed, the respondents in the cross libel shall give security in the usual amount and form to respond in damages, as claimed in said cross libel, unless the court, on cause shown, shall otherwise direct; and all proceedings upon the original libel shall be stayed until such security shall be given."