The May McGuirl

CHATFIELD, District Judge.

At the trial of this case upon March 13, 1914, at the close of the testimony, the following findings of fact were stated, with a reservation of determination as to the proximate cause of the accident and the legal responsibility therefor:

“The tug having gone to Fifty-Second street with the barge Fort Hamilton alongside, and failing to get another barge at that point, took the Fort Hamilton in tow with two hawsers of 20 fathoms each to proceed to the North River. The wind had been strong enough before leaving Fifty-Second street to put upon the captain the obligation…