M. & J. Tracy, Inc. v. City of New York

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The tug E. J. Berwind going up the East River on the flood tide and bound ultimately *706into the Harlem River, had the barge Summitville on her port and the barge Eureka 21 on her starboard side. When about 300 feet off Ninetieth street, Manhattan, the ferryboat Mott Haven collided with the Berwind and her tow. The Mott Haven had left Riker’s Island, en route for Blackwells Island, passed Hallet’s Point, and slowed down to go under the stem of the ferryboat Jamaica that was bound from East Ninety-Second street, Manhattan, for Astoria. At about midchannel and just…