Pennsylvania R. v. New York, N. H. & H. R.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Tug No. 16 left North Fourth street, Brooklyn, about 8 o’clock in the morning of February 25, 1926, bound for Pier 8, East River, in the vicinity of tho Battery. The weather was fair, with a slight eastwardly breeze, and the tide high water slack. No. 16 had reached a point in the river about opposite Corlears Hook and about 150 to 500 feet off the New York piers, when she sighted the New Haven steam tug Transfer No. 6, which had left Pier 39 and was bound up the river for 112th street. No. 6 was then about 100 feet to the east and…