Mears Towing Co. v. Dauntless Towing Line, Inc.

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

After leaving the foot of Saekett street, Brooklyn, at 7:15 a. m., October 28, 1922, the Mears made her course for Pier 2, Erie Basin, and while proceeding down Buttermilk Channel, running light on the last of the ebb tide, she came into collision with a barge, which was fastened on the starboard side of the Dauntless. This caused injury to the Mears and gives rise to this libel. It is alleged in the libel, and the libelant sought to sustain the allegation, that the vessels approached each other starboard to starboard; that the Dauntless sounded a signal of two whistles;…