The Bay State

ADAMS, District Judge.

The River & Harbor Transportation Company, owner of the carfloat No. 6, brought an action to recover from the steamer Bay State the damages, estimated at $10,000, received on the port side from the latter in a collision between those vessels on the 6th of December, 1906, about 11:45 o’clock P. M. in the East River to the southward of Blackwells Island. The float was in tow on the port side of the tug Wrestler, also belonging to the same libellant. The tide was the last of the flood. The Boutell Steel Barge Company, the owner of the Bay State, brought a cross action to…