The West Point

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

On December 20, 1929, the Erie tug Marion, carrying a carfloat on her port side, was proceeding up the Hudson river on a course lying about 1,000 feet off the New York piers. An ebb tide was running at between 2½ and 2¾ knots per hour. The New York Central ferryboat West Point was crossing from her southerly ferry slip, at the foot of West Forty-Second street, New York City, to the West Shore Terminal at Weehawken, N. J. Each vessel continued on these courses until, at about 7:04 p. m., the starboard forward corner of the Marion’s carfloat collided with the…