Burns Bros. v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The Invader on December 15, 1925, left Pier 9 at Weehawken, N. J., before 8 p. m., bound for Brooklyn with the ear float No. 14 in tow on her port side. The flotilla crossed the river and proceeded down stream, 400 feet off the pier line, at about 6 miles an hour past the land. The tug Mc-Guirl, with the Burns Bros, barge No. 21 on her starboard side, backed out of the slip on the south side of the Fortieth street pier, where she had landed another barge, and was bound for Fifty-Eighth street, Manhattan. The weather was clear, with light wind and flood tide. As the…