New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

_GALSTON, District Judge.

Libellant seeks to recover damages to one of its carfloats incurred as a result of a collision with a carfloat of respondent on October 19, 1947 in the East River.

Libellant’s tug, Transfer No. 15, left the vicinity of the float bridges of the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey in Jersey City about 5:20 a. m. on the 19th of October, bound for Oak Point (near 149th Street in the Bronx) with Carfloat No. 58 in tow on her starboard side, and Carfloat No. 44 in tow on her port side. Each carfloat was secured to the tug by a headline, a tow line, and a stern line, and…