Swenson v. Pennsylvania R.

FRANK, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, respondent below, from an interlocutory decree of the District Court holding it liable for damage sustained by libellant’s barge Tillie S. on April 27, 1937, while lying at the “light stakes” at South Amboy. The procedure by which similar barges are towed to South Amboy by tugs owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, left there at the light stakes until loaded, and then towed to their destination has been described by this court on several occasions before. See The Helderberg, 2 Cir., 94 F.2d 649, and cases there…