McWilliams Bros. v. Pennsylvania R.

HOUGH, Circuit Judge.

The vital point in this case is that the navigators of the tugs involved were aware of the existence and the general location of the wrecks against which they ran. They knew that it was necessary to keep the loaded tow coming out of South Am-boy within the 300-foot dredged channel; they knew that such loaded tows must-go out on the ebb tide, and also that such ebb tide tended to set any vessel navigating in the channel, at the point where the wrecks were, toward the wrecks.

*688The exact dimensions of the wrecks do not appear; their position as located by the evidence seems to…