Ford Motor Co. v. Manhattan Lighterage Corp.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The appeals in these six suits arose from the sinking of the barge, Manhattan No. 50, and from injuries to her cargo of Ford cars and to the barge, Clara C., all in the Hudson River at Troy on May 15, 1936. The tug, Schoonmaker, of the Cornell Steamboat Company had the Manhattan No. 50 in tow .upon a hawser so short that one could step from the stern of the tug to the bow of the barge; astern of the Manhattan No. 50 was the barge, Clara C.; equally close aboard the Manhattan No. 50. The flotilla was moving on the flood along a row of •seven piers which had been set…