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 716 FEDERAL REPORTER. �shore. Assuming that the channel is ordinarily 400 yards wide, and runs close to the island, this woiild give the Hickory 250 yards and the Noil only 150 yards. My conclusion is that the Neil was in fault for reasons heretofore stated, and that the Hickory was in fault for not bearing further to her larboard and leaving a wider space between her and the island. �There will, therefore, be a decree dividing the damages and costs. So ordered. ���THE COLUMBIA. ���Baysbn and others r. The Coltjmbia and The Edgab Baxtbb. �Cahill and others v. The Columbia, �The Nat. Pbeight and Lishtebage Co. v. The CoLtmfiiAv �(District Omrt, E. D. New Ym-k. June 14, 1881.) �li Collision m Bast River— Tra and FERuy-BoAT—UirAvoiDABLif Accident— , Collision AT PiBR. �Where collisions occurred in the East river, at New York, in rapid succes- sion, between a tug-boat arid a ferry-boat eutering her glij>, a bark in tow of the tug and the feriy-boat,tand the ferry-boat and a lighter lying at the end of the pier, and actions for damages werebrought by the owners of the bark against both the tug and the ferry-boat, and by the owners of the tug and of the ligiiter against the ferry-boat, Tidd, that the tug was in fault for the first two collisions, having attempted to cross the bows of the ferry-bbat, -vheK she might have gone safely under her stern ; and the collision of the ferry-boat with the ligiiter being unavoidable by her as the resuit of the other collisions, tho libel of the lighter against the ferry-boat must be dismissed; �Hill, Wing & Showdy, for Baysen and others. B. D, Silliman and E. L. Owen, for the Columbia and the Baxter, E. L. Owen, for Cahill and others. B. D. Silliman, for the Columbia, C. E. Crow- ell, for the National Freight and Lighterage Company. �Benedici, D. J. These three actions, which arose out of a collis- ion that occurred at the South ferry, on the fourteenth day of Octo- bex, 1879, have been tried together. The ferry-boat Columbia, one of the regular ferry-boats of the Union Ferry Company, plying on the South ferry between New York and Brooklyn, was, at the time in question, on her regular trip from Brooklyn to New York in the day- time, the tide being ebb and the weather clear. The tug Edgar Bax- ter, having the bark Laura in tow upon a hawser, was approaching the East river, from the North river, on a course crossing that of the ��� �