Martin Marine Transp. Co. v. Jakobson & Peterson, Inc.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The Martin Marine Transportation Company, Inc., appeals from a decree in the admiralty which dismissed its claim against Jakobson & Peterson, Inc., filed in a proceeding to limit any liability of that company arising out of a collision between a barge in tow of its tug and a barge in tow of the claimant’s tug, near Negro Point in Hell Gate, on the night of December 18, 1940. The important facts, as found by the judge and in the main not disputed, are as follows: The claimant’s tug, “Mars,” was bound west against a flood tide of about three miles, with the light barges,…