The John E. Enright

ADLER, District Judge.

These two causes were tried together; each libel being for damage to a barge which was in tow of the tug William C. Pox on September 3, 1927. On that date the tug had in tow four barges, and, while east bound on the Barge Canal, had arrived at the entrance of Lock No. 12 in the Mohawk river at about 9 o’clock in the evening. The barges were loaded and were being towed tandem. The hawser from the tug was about 309 feet long. Then came the Enright, and lashed to the Enright and just behind it was the Chapman. It is the owners of these two boats who bring the libels that…