Clapp v. J. W. Stanton & Co.

The plaintiffs claim of the defendants the sum of $805 55, - for damages alleged to have been sustained by the schooner Carrie Sanford, through the fault and negligence of the defendants, owners of the steam twoboat Anglo Saxon.

The Anglo Saxon left the bar on the 21st December, 1858, with two ships, made fast on each side, and two small vessels astern, the Carrie Sanford and a Spanish bark, the Providencia. The vessels astern were towed by hawsers, fifty or sixty fathoms in length, and made fast in the usual way, by the bits aft on the towboat, the Carrie Sanford on the port side, and the…