The Wrestler
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in admiralty for collision by William H. Follette, owner of the canal boat Videtto, against the tug Wrestler, the River & Harbor Transportation Company, claimant, with the tug Wyomissing, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, claimant, impleaded. Decree against the Wrestler, and her claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
January 18, 1913, about 5 p. m., the tug Wyomissing was going up the East River with a hawser tow of four tiers, having four loaded canal boats in each tier, and two tailing on behind the middle boats of the last tier. The hawsers were 150 feet long, the boats about 100 feet long, and the tiers were 5 or 6 feet apart, so that the tow extended say 650 feet from the stern of the tug. The tide was flood and the wind southwest.
The East River runs from Brooklyn Bridge to Corlears Hook about east and west, and the flood tide sets over from the Brooklyn Bridge to the New York…
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