Kinnear v. Staten Island Rapid Transit R. Co.

Near midnight of November 6,1890, while the libelant’s bark Ophelia, shortly before arrived from sea, lay at anchor abreast of Bedloe’s island, a little within the prescribed limits for anchorage ground, she was run into, in a dense fog, by the respondent’s ferry-boat .Middle-town, bound from the Battery to Staten island, and sustained damages for which the above libel was filed. Without discussing in detail the conflicts of testimony, I find the following faults in both: .

1. The precise point whore the Ophelia lay being known to the pilot of the ferry-boat, as she had passed her several…