The Lawrence J. Tomlinson

BYERS, District Judge.

The owner of the barge Lawrence J. Tomlinson seeks to recover the damages sustained by it while in a field of ice, in the Hudson River, near Catskill, N. Y., the barge being in tow of the claimant’s tug Cornell No. 21 from Jersey City to Troy, during the month of February, 1933.

The libelant asserts that the barge was damaged as the result of striking the ice and -also because of overriding the tug, which was then towing on short hawsers, when the tug was brought to a sudden stop by ice barriers.

The specifications of negligence in the libel in addition to the general ones…