Comet Lighterage Co. v. New York Cent. R. Co.

INCH, District Judge.

About 7:30 in the morning of February 18, 1926, the barge Comet No. 5, belonging to libelant, was' lying quietly off the end of the other barges and tugs at the end of the pier at the foot of Seventh street, Hoboken. Figuring the average width of these barges, etc., as 30 feet, “the tier of boats extended from the end of the pier out into the river say between 250 and 350 feet.” At the extreme river end was the Comet No. 5.

She was on the starboard (out river) side of a tug which had her in tow and had stopped at this place. Both the Comet and the tug were still. It was “a…