McWilliams v. Steam-Tug Vim

Choate, L. J.

This is a libel brought by the owner of the canal-boat Captain Geo. M. Wright to recover damages for a collision. The libel alleges that the steam-tug Vim, on the fifth day of March, 1880, was proceeding up Long Island sound, bound from New York to Glen Cove, having in tow the libellant’s canal-boat on her port side, and two other boats or barges on her starboard side, when, at about 2 o’clock in the morning, and when two-thirds of the way, or nearly that, between Hart’s island and Sand’s Point, the said tug came into collision in mid-channel with said schooner Spartel, bound to…