Tooker v. Philadelphia & R. Ry. Co.

ADAMS, District Judge.

The first of the above entitled actions was brought by the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, the owner of the barge Oak Hill, to recover from the schooner Gladys, the damages caused to the barge by a collision, which occurred between those vessels on the 24th day of August, 1904, about 10:15 o’clock P. M., off Barnegat, New Jersey. The second action was brought by the owners to recover the schooner’s damages in the collision.

The Oak Hill was being towed, in company with two other barges, the Phcenix and Buck Ridge, by the Philadelphia & Reading Company’s tug…