Cohocton

WARD, Circuit Judge.

May 22, 1919, at about 3:30 p. m., the tug Potter, with three seagoing coal-laden barges abreast on two hawsers, libelant’s barge Cohocton being the port hawser boat, came out of the *317Kills and anchored the barges, as her witnesses say, on the Robbin’s Reef anchorage grounds; the fog being then dense. May 23, about 6:30 a. m., in dense fog, the steam lighter Pranks struck the port quarter of the Cohocton, whose owner filed this libel against the Pranks and the Potter to recover his damages.

The libelant charges that the Potter anchored the barges in the fairway outside of…