Horan v. Reichert Towing Lines, Inc.

(after stating the facts as above).

It was alleged in all the libels that the tug negligently grounded the scows. The tug answered by denying all negligence and alleging that the scows took the ground because of a sudden shift in the wind and change in the weather while they were in the channel and the tug was trying to take them back to safety in the harbor. Thereupon a notice of a motion to amend the libel in the Seaboard Case was filed and also the Gilder-sleeve Case, but not in the Horan Case. These amendments charged the tug with fault in not going out into the Sound to ascertain…