Erie R. v. Oceanic Steam Nav. Co.

ADAMS, District Judge.

This is an action brought by the libelant to recover damages caused to its tug Shohola by collision with a hawser, which was stretched by the respondent across the entrance to the slip between piers 48 and 49 North River. The respondent was the lessee of the piers. The accident happened a little after 4 o’clock in the morning of January 8, 1902. The hawser was stretched from the respondent’s steamer Celtic, lying on the northerly side of pier 48, to the other pier and was made fast so that it was an obstruction to vessels desiring to use the slip. The tug was entering…