Black

COXE, District Judge.

I have no difficulty in finding as a fact that the barge Mary C. Black was injured by the impact of ice in the vicinity of Pier 64, North River, on January 27, 1927, while being towed by the steam tug Willet. The barge was loaded with grain at Jersey City on the early morning of January 27, 1927, and while so loaded, was placed alongside the tug Willet on her starboard side, and towed in that way to Pier 58, North River, and thence to Pier 64, North River, where the barge was left at about 11 a. m. The barge master discovered the broken planks in the bow of the barge very…