The Wyomissing
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Suits in admiralty for collision by Albert E. La Veck, owner of the barge Goldie, and John H. Flannery, owner of the barge Mary F. Flannery, against the tug Wyomissing, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, claimant, with the M'orris & Cumings Dredging Company impleaded. Decree against the Wyomissing, and her claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
March 13, 1914, at night, the tug Wyomis-sing started from Port Reading with a tow of seven tiers of loaded boats, four in a tier, and two light boats tailing on, bound to New York. The length of the tow was about 1,000 feet. The helper tug Pencoyd, on the starboard side at the end of the tow, assisted it through the draw of the Baltimore & Ohio bridge across the Arthur Kill on the Staten Island side. The tide was flood and the night dark, but clear. From the bridge to a point at or near Elizabethport the tide runs comparatively true, but a tow rounding the point known as…
2Cited by1 opinion
- The BernCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1918