PATTERSON, District Judge.
The suit is for damage to a cargo of ammonia sulphate carried on the barge Westmoreland.
The Westmoreland was a wooden barge of the schooner type, designed and used for the coastwise trade. She generally carried cargoes of coal out of Norfolk. In September, 1932, the respondent made a charter of the barge to the libelant's assignor, Eastern Cotton Oil Co., Inc., for a voyage from Everett, Mass., to Norfolk, Va., to carry 1,000 tons...
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