Soeller v. New York Canal & Great Lakes Corp.

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

On May 29, 1930; tho motor vessel Herk-imer left the New York Barge Terminal on tho north side of Gowanus Bay, bound for Constable Hook, N. J. She backed into Go-warms Bay, turned around and started down the bay. Ilor speed was four or five miles an hour. Tho weather was clear, tido low, slack water, and no wind. When she reached a point about four hundred feet above the slip on the south side of the pier at Thirty-Third street, Brooklyn, the covered barge Harry came out of the slip in tow and headed across the Herkimer’s course from port to starboard. Tho Harry was in…