District Court, S.D. New York July 2, 1947, Nos. 131-8, 132-79 (New York Cent. R. v. American Dock Co.)

COXE, District Judge.

These cross suits grow out of the sinking of the barge Pelham on September 28, 1941, in the slip between Piers 1 and 2 of the American Dock Company at Tompkins-ville, Staten Island. The barge was at the time under charter to the New York Central Railroad Cortipany, and sank as a result of coming' into contact with a submerged pile while being towed out of the slip.