Doty v. The James T. Easton

Between 6 and 7 o’clock on the morning of the twenty-fifth of October, 1884, the steam-tug James T. Easton took two canal-boats from the end of Pier 3, East river, out into the stream, for the purpose of towing them to Newtown creek. The tide was sl^ck at the last of the ebb; and the tug, having in the customary manner first backed out with the boats, until about 400 feet from the end of' the pier, as I find from the proofs, there stopped, and turned the boats around so as to head towards the Brooklyn shore. She then went in between the two, in order to fasten the libelant’s boat upon her…