New York & Albany Lighterage Co. v. Davis

HOUGH, Circuit Judge.

This case arises out of a collision between a- tow in charge of tug Ashbourne and the tug Tice. The former tug had in tow about 25 light coal boxes, making 6 or 7 tiers; the latter was in charge of one vessel only on two short hawsers. The Ashbourne and tow were passing through the Arthur Kill, from Elizabethport toward Perth Amboy, and the Tice was going the other way.

At about Buckwheat Island, the dredged and only available channel for craft such,as these tugs and their tows is 400 feet wide; on the Staten Island side of this channel is another 100 feet or so of water,…