The Bayonne

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

This is an action by the owner to recover damages for injury done to a raft of logs by a collision with the steamship Bayonne in the early morning of November 30, 1901. The raft was in. tow of the tug Nellie, and both vessels are declared by the libel to have been in fault. It appeal's without controversy that about midnight the tug took the raft in tow at Delaware City, and proceeded up-the Delaware river, on the way to Bordentown, N. J. In accordance with the custom of the river, the raft was being towed on the flood tide. When the tide is against them, these…