Briggs v. The Whitehall

BROWN, District Judge.

At about 7:40 o’clock of October 20, 1894, as tbe ferryboat Whitehall was making her trip from Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn, to her slip at tbe Battery, in a dense fog, sbe came in collision with tbe libelantis-lighter M. S. Bernite, which was under sail, in a light breeze, in tbe first of tbe flood tide when abreast of Governor’s Island and probably about one-third of tbe distance aero'ss tbe stream. Tbe lighter bad left tbe wharf at the Union Stores, about three blocks above tbe Hamilton Avenue Ferry, at a *1023little after 7 a. m. At that time the weather was clear. She was…