148 F.2d 522 | 2d Cir. | 1945
The damage to the tug was the result of forcing the barge into place against the ice. The trial court judge did not find that no one was negligent nor that the scow had contributed to the damage. He exculpated the tug on the theory that the directions and advice given by the steamship company’s employees insulated the tug from liability. That theory is untenable. The tug owed the scow the duty “to do the work in a seamanlike manner.”
Reversed.
The Golden Rule, 1925, A.M.C. 297, 298.
There the tug left the barge, undamaged, at a place designated by the company which employed the tug, and the court held that the tug’s duty then ended. The court said, “It was of course obligatory on the tug to do the work in a scamanlike manner, hut sho was not chargeable as is a vessel contracting for towage, in respect of propriety in starting out. and safety at the point of mooring and leaving.” It should be noted that the court held, on the facts, that there was no negligence in the place of mooring the barge.
Quinn v. Southgate Nelson Corp., 2 Cir., 121 F.2d 190, 191, certiorari denied 314 U.S. 682, 62 S.Ct. 185, 86 L.Ed. 546. See also Brady v. Roosevelt S. S. Co., 317 U.S. 575, 581, 63 S.Ct. 425, 87 L.Ed. 471.
Cf. The Procida, D.C., 243 F. 251, 253; The Edward G. Murray, 2 Cir., 278 F. 895, 897.