THE ONWARD

No. 13671.

6 F.Supp. 45 (1933)

THE ONWARD. THE SYBIL.

District Court, E. D. New York.

December 26, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Single, Atkins & Tyler, of New York City (George B. Warburton, of New York City, of counsel), for libelant.

Park, Lynch & Hagen, of New York City, for claimant of steam tug Sybil.

Arthur J. W. Hilly, Corp. Counsel, of New York City (Charles J. Carroll, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and William J. Leonard, of New York City, of counsel), for City of New York.

Joseph B. Miller, of New York City (Irving Miller, of New York City, of counsel), for respondent P. T. Cox Contracting Co., Inc.


BYERS, District Judge.

This cause involves damages occasioned by the sinking of the coal barge Onward on September 29, 1932, about 2:30 p. m., soon after she had passed down Newtown creek, at about low water, under the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge. The barge was in tow of the tug Sybil, which had her bow ahead alongside, to starboard of the tug; approaching the bridge it became apparent that the tow must hold well to the Queens shore, as a diver was working on the bottom...

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