The Monticello

The libel in this case was filed to recover damages to the British steamer Jenny Otto from a collision with the ferry-boat Montioello a little outside of the Hamilton ferry slip, in the Bast river, on the Brooklyn side, on the sixteenth of January, 1879.

The- Jenny Otto was an iron steamer 275 feet long, and about 941 tons measurement. She left her dock at Columbia stores, at the foot of Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, at 2:40 p. m., about half an hour before high water. She was proceeding out to sea, intending to go by way of Buttermilk channel. About 300 feet out from the wharf at the Columbia…