The John Rugge
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in admiralty for collision by Karan Feeney and Adele Harris, owners of the derrick lighter Karan Feeney, against the steam tug John Rugge, John Rugge and another, claimants, and the steam tug Perth Amboy, the Lehigh Valley Transportation Company, claimant. Decree for libelants against the Perth Amboy, and her claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
March 13, 1914, at about 1 a. m. the tug John Rugge, with the derrick lighter Karan Feeney and three other boats in tow in two tiers on a hawser, rounded to in the Arthur Kill on the ebb tide, and landed the two port boats at the wharf of the Liebig Fertilizer Works, Cartaret, on the New Jersey side. As she *862started away again from the wharf with the boat Wellington, and after her the lighter Feeney tandem, her witnesses say they saw, half a mile above, the side lights of the tug Perth Amboy coming down on the Jersey side of the Kill with towing lights, showing that she had…
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