Campbell v. The Young America

BBOWN, District Judge.

Whatever may have been tbe character of tbe mark left upon tbe side of tbe libelant's canal boat, tbe fact is proved that tbe rake iron, which ran perpendicularly down tbe extreme after end of tbe planking on tbe side, was torn up, broken, and left banging and swinging from tbe uppermost fastening. Tbis fact seems to me to prove conclusively that there was some defect in tbe claimant’s tugboat, probably in tbe rupture and projection of her wearing iron, which distinguishes tbis case altogether from those of contacts in tbe usual course of navigation, and shows that tbe…