District Court, E.D. New York March 19, 1946, No. 17189 (Youngstown)

INCH, District Judge.

This suit arises from a collision in the North River in the early morning of February 27, 1944, at the entrance of the ferry slip between Piers 19 and 20 on the Manhattan side, between the Erie ferryboat Youngstown, owned by libellant, Erie Railroad Company, and one of the heavily loaded carfloats in tow of the tug Invader, owned by Havemeyers & Elder, Inc.