Middleton v. The John F. Winslow

BbowN. District Judge.

On the 6th of April, 1891, the tug John F. Winslow took in tow upon a hawser the schooner Moonlight, loaded with a cargo of wood, consigned to Benjamin F. Gerken, who had a wood yard at Seventy-Fifth street, East river. The schooner was taken to the short dock at Seventy-Fifth street, headed down river against the flood tide, and a line temporarily made fast to the dock from outside of a brick barge that was unloading there. Being told that ho would get a berth sooner at Seventy-Sixth street, the master requested the tug to assist him in going there, to which the tug…