New York Steam Corp. v. O'Boyle

COXE, District Judge.

These are suits to recover for injuries to the hull and cargo of the canal boat Bresnahan sustained in a collision with the tug Grace A. Dalzell on March 14,1929, at about 8:05 a. m. The collision occurred in a dense fog off Pier 39, Brooklyn, while the Bresnahan, with twenty-one other loaded coal boats, was'tied up at the end of the pier. The boats were all in charge of the tug Ashbourne, and had been brought from Port Reading the night before, arriving at Pier 39 at 1:50 a. m. on March 14th, the morning of the collision; they were arranged in six tiers, with four boats…