Slocomb v. The Rockaway

It is not controverted upon this appeal that when the Survivor was run into by the Bockaway the brig was lying at anchor on the usual anchorage ground for vessels in the Bast river off Nineteenth street, in the city of New York, with her anchor-light properly set and burning. As the pilot of tho ferry-boat had been making trips every few minutes for several hours prior to the collision, passing the brig on each trip, he had notice of her location. It cannot bo doubted that under such circumstances it was incumbent upon the steam-boat to exonerate herself from fault, hy satisfactory proof of…