Philadelphia & R. R. Co. v. The R. H. Waterman

BROWN, District Judge.

The above libels grow out of a collision which occurred at about half past: 7 a. in. December 7, 1896, near the mouth of the Harlem river, off Horn’s Hook at Eighty-Ninth street, by which the libelant’s barge Maine was damaged so that she after-wards sank. The Maine was the starboard boat of four barges that were going up the East r'ver in a strongflood tide abreast of each other, in tow of the tug Wateiman, on a hawser about 30 fathoms long.. The tide at Horn’s Hook was running probably from three to four knots, and the speed of the boats was about four knots more. They…