Paul v. Howland Towing & Transportation Co.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, District Judge.

Claimant’s tug, Clarence P. Howland, bad in tow libelants’ four-masted schooner Charles Struven. The tug was 85 feet long and the schooner 170 feet long, carrying a cargo of 575,000 feet of lumber. The tag was on the port after quarter of the schooner, and had brought her to a point near the foot of Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, with the purpose of placing her starboard side to the pier at the Beard Stores. When the schooner was at a distance from the pier variously estimated by the witnesses at from 25 to 175 feet, the master of the tug, who was at the time on…