In re Lee Transit Corp.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

Nelson, the claimant, served as a deckhand on the appellee’s tug. On a cold February day, 1926, the tug took in tow two barges tandem in the East River to land them, or at least one of them, on the south side of the Oak street pier some two miles further up the river. The barges were made fast close together on hawsers to the tug about twenty fathoms long. The Oak street pier extends some four hundred feet out from the Brooklyn bulkhead line and to the south there is open water for more than a thousand feet. In making her landing on a flood tide the tug did not round to…