The E. A. Packer

The libel in this case was filed to recover damages for the loss of the barge Atlanta, which was sunk in a collisiofi with a boat in tow of the B. A. Packer, upon her port side, at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon of October 25, 1880, off pier 1 or 2, in the East river. The Atlanta had been lying at Roberts’ stores, three piers above the Wall-street ferry on the Brooklyn side. She was taken in tow by the steam-tug Wolverton, on a hawser of about 20 fathoms, and was bound up the North river. The tide was about half ebb, and strong. The Wolverton, after hauling the Atlanta away from the dock at…