The D. S. Gregory
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
This was a libel, in rem, filed in the district court, against the steam ferry-boat D. S. Gregory, by the owners of the steamship Talisman, to recover for the damages sustained by the latter, in a collision which occurred between the two vessels, in the port of New York, on the morning of the 15th of January, 1863, about half-past nine o’clock. The district court decreed for the libellants [Case No. 4,099], and the claimants appealed to this court
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, Circuit Justice.
The D. S. Gregory was one of the ferry-boats running from the foot of Montgomery street, in Jersey City, across the Hudson river, to the foot of Courtlandt street, in New York. The Talisman came into the port on the afternoon of the 14th of January, and anchored in the river, about in the usual track of the ferryboats running between the two points above mentioned. When she arrived, there was a thick fog, and the river was full of vessels at anchor and moving, so that some difficulty was experienced in. finding an open space sufficiently large to anchor her without her…
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