BYERS, District Judge.
The libellant, owner of the tug Admiral Dewey and the coal barge Eureka No. 79, seeks compensation for damages sustained by them because car floats alongside the tug Detroit, collided with the Dewey and forced the latter into contact with the coal barge.
These incidents occurred on April 13, 1932, in the slip between piers L and M in Jersey City, at a time when the Dewey was entering with a light coal barge in tow.
The slip was...
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