CHESNUT, District Judge.
This case presents a libel in personam for damages by fire to the steamship "Dupont" belonging to the State of Maryland. The respondent is the Spedden Shipbuilding Company of Baltimore, which, at the time of the fire on March 17, 1934, was engaged under written contract with the State in performing certain work on the boat. At the time of the fire the boat was on the Marine Railway in the shipyards of the respondent, but the interior of the...
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