The Fanita

WAITE, Circuit Justice.

On August 20th, 1870, the libellant was the owner of the schooner Samuel G. Miles, bound on a Toy-age from Croton landing, Hudson river, to Clott’s brickyard, in Williamsburg. Long Island, nearly opposite Corlaers’ Hook, New York, with a cargo of 42,000 brick, weighing about eighty-four tons. Her length was sixty-two feet keel, her, breadth about twenty-three feet, and she was loaded almost to the water’s edge. The schooner left Croton about four o’clock in the afternoon of that day. Her crew consisted of four men all told — one at the wheel, one on the lookout, one on…