District Court, E.D. New York May 29, 1940, No. A-15661 (The Cloud)

BYERS, District Judge.

On March 31, 1939, the claimant’s tug Patience took the libelant’s coal barge Cloud in tow alongside to port, at the Reading stakeboat abreast of the Statue of Liberty, at about 10:15 a.m., and delivered her at Court Street in the Gowanus Canal at 11:10 a.m. Recovery is sought herein for damage said to have been done to the Cloud during that 55-minute interval.