AUGUSTUS N. HAND, District Judge.
On January 27, 1923, the steam tug McWilliams, bound from New Haven to the Blue Line Stakeboat off Staten Island, New York Bay, was proceeding down the East River with a hawser tow of eight light barges in four tiers of two boats each. The G. K. Mellen, libelant's barge, was the starboard boat in the last tier. The tide was ebb. This tow had proceeded in the East River to a point just below Corlears Hook, when the New York Central...
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