Burnett

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought by William Bailey, as owner of the barge Bessie S., to recover the damages suffered by him through a collision between the barge, while in tow on a hawser of about 100 feet in length, in company with two other boats, of the tug Robert Burnett, and Car Float No. 26 in tow of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company’s tug Transfer No. 5, about 3 o’clock p. m. of the 6th day of January, 1904, in the East River, about opposite pier 50. The Burnett and tow were bound from 96th Street to Port Johnson. The tow was light. The tide was ebb.…