The Mount Hope

BYERS, District Judge.

These suits involve the same subject-matter. In the first, the East Thirty-fourth *81Street Vehicular Ferry Co., Ine., seeks to bold the steamtug Waverly for collision damages, and in the second the tug seeks to hold the ferry company’s ferryboat Mount Hope for the same reason.

On July 14, 1930, at about 4:30, daylight saving time, the Mount Hope left her Manhattan berth, bound for her customary Long Island City slip; a light wind blew out of the north, and the last of the ebb-tide was running; her course was necessarily on an angle to the north as her destination lay in…