District Court, E.D. New York November 14, 1919 (Brigham v. John F. Schmadeke, Inc.)

CHATEIELD, District Judge.

The accident occurred on the 19th' of August, 1918, and all the important occurrences were before dark. The brick barge Brigham came up the Gowanus Canal with the flood tide, and with the acquiescence of the Morton Company took the lower of the three berths in front of their property, being moored in such a position that the stern of the Brigham cleared the Carroll