Charles E. Pearsall & Son, Inc. v. Cornell Steamboat Co.

CHASE, Circuit Judge.

While northbound in the Tappan Zee in the Hudson River in the head tier of a 35-boat flotilla in tow of the respondent’s tug Sterling Tomkins assisted by another of its tugs the Edwin Terry, the steel canal barge Transmarine No. 126, owned by the libelant Transmarine Transportation Corporation and loaded with scrap iron, of which the libelant was bailee, foundered in a heavy sea and sank early in the evening of April 17, 1932. ,About an hour and a half before that a pile driver, attached to the rear of the flotilla at the right side and owned by libelant Charles E.…