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 MARSHALL V. TUG CONROY. 785 �determine and decide when the loading at the wharf should stop. �It appears that 11 days elapsed from the time the vessel got hard aground at the wharf until she finally sailed for Baltimore. Six days of this time was consumed in unloading part of the cargo to lighten the vessel and get her out of the difficulty she should never have been gotten into, and the remaining five days were consumed in putting aboard the balance of the cargo from lighters after the vessel was an- chored in deeper water. This last delay of five days would not have been necessary had there been 10 feet of water at the wharf, and demurrage at $26 a day for these five days is to be paid by the respondents. �The libellant is entitled to a decree for the unpaid freight, and $125 demurrage. ���Maushall V, TuG CoNROT and Babgb "E." �{Dùtrict Court, D. Maryland. , 1880.) �Coi/iiisiow— TuG's LiGHTs Obstkucted bt Tow. — A tug is liable for a collision, when it permitted its side-lights to be obstructed by its tow, so that the same were not visible from the decls of a collidiug achooner. �In Admiralty. �Collision between the steam-tug Conroy and barge "E," and the schooner Dexter. �John H, Thomas, for libellants. �John H. B. Latrobe and James A. Buchannan, for respond- ents. �MoBRis, T>. J. The excuse of the tug for not keeping out of the way of the schooner is that the schooner changed her course. The master of the tug states that when he had taken the barge in tow and got out from Henderson's wharf and headed down the stream, on his course for the Baltimore & Ohio Eailroad elevators, he saw both of the schooner's lights eom- ing towards him head on; that he ported his wheel a little to �v.2.no.9— 50 ����