Pfeifer Oil Transp. Co. v. The Ira S. Bushey

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This litigation arose out of a collision which occurred in Newark Bay on the night of March 2, 1941, between libellant’s barge Pfeifer No. 2 and appellant’s diesel tanker Ira S. Bushey. The story of the collision, as told in the libel, was as follows: The tug Monitor, having the barge, stern first, on her port side, was proceeding down Newark Bay on the starboard side of the dredged channel bound for Elizabethport. *607When in the neighborhood of the New Jersey Central Railroad bridge she sighted the lights of a vessel which proved to be the Ira S. Bushey. This vessel was…