Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit April 6, 1925, No. 320 (The N. Y. Marine No. 3)

HAND, Circuit Judge.

On January 14, 1922, the schooner St. Johns was taken in tow by the tug Jessie Y. Forsyth, to be laid alongside a pier in a slip at Perth Ambóy, N. J. On the other side of the slip and alongside the opposite pier were four or five seows, among them the libelant’s scow, Saxon, nearly light. Outside of her lay the loaded scow, Ramsey, with only 6 inches of free-board.