Devermann v. The Dorothy

BKOWH, District Judge.

On the 9th of May, 1893, at about 5:15 P. M., as the side-wheel passenger steamer Havana was going up the East river in the beginning of the ebb tide, her port side, just forward of the paddle wheel, came in collision with the starboard corner of a railroad float, off pier 41, which the tug Dorothy was taking alongside for the purpose of towing up the Harlem river. The Havana suffered some damages, for which the above libel was filed. The Dorothy had shortly before taken the railroad float, laden with cars, from the slip between piers 40 and 41. The weight of testimony…