P. Dougherty Co. v. The Baltimore

GALSTON, District Judge.

The libel charges that on October 23, 1942 the barge Delaware was the port hawser boat of two boats in tow of the tug Henry Lee and was bound from New York Harbor to Perth Amboy, New Jersey; that in the vicinity of Tuft’s Point the tug Baltimore, bound from South Amboy to New York, approached and endeavored to pass the Lee and her tow; that in so doing the tug Baltimore was so negligently handled and controlled that one of her barges came into collision with the barge Delaware, causing damage to that vessel.

The Pennsylvania’s answer denied liability and by petition…