COLEMAN, District Judge.
This is a suit in admiralty by the United States to recover the cost of replacing an emergency dolphin or pile in the Chesapeake Canal near Chesapeake City, Maryland, alleged to have been damaged through the negligent navigation of the Tug T. J. Hooper, owned by the Eastern Transportation Company, the respondent, while towing the Barge Cohassett through the Canal at about five a.m., on the morning of February 25th, 1940.
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