City of New York v. New York & E. R. Ferry Co.

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought by the City of New York to recover damages caused to its steamboat Fidelity, by collision in Hell Gate, with the ferryboat Steinway, owned by the respondent, on the 22nd day of October, 1903, about 12:3o P. M. The Fidelity was proceeding through the Gate from Harts Island to New York, intending to go through the channel on the west side of Blackwells Island. The Stein way was making a trip from her slip on the Astoria shore to the foot of 92d Street, New York. The collision occurred about 400 feet above the ferryboat’s slip and from 100 to 200…