The St. John
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[Appeal 'from the district court of the United States for the Southern district of New York. . [This was a libel for damages resulting from a collision. There was a decree in the district court condemning the St. John, with a reference to a commissioner to ascertain the amount. Case No. 12,223. From that decree the present appeal was taken.]
1Opinion of the Court
WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.
There is very great difficulty in determining, from the evidence, the precise manner in which, the collision in question herein was caused. The steamboat St. John, at about three o’clock, a. m., on the 20th of November, 1864, was on her voyage from Albany to New York, on the Hudson river. The steamboat Pluto, having the barge of the libellant in tow and lashed to her port side, was on her voyage up the river from New York to New Paltz in Ulster county. The night was clear and the moon about “half size.” At some point in the river very near to West Point — either at the…
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