Conover v. The John S. Darcy
District Court, S.D. New York
A. few minutes after 7 o’clock in the evening of December 4, 1875, as the steam ferry-boat John S. Darcy, coming from the Pavonia ferry, Jersey City, with a strong flood-tide, was about entering her slip at Twenty-third street, North river, she came into collision with the tugboat I. L. Fisher, striking with her bows the starboard side of the tug, a little aft of the engines, doing both vessels some damage, for which the above cross-libels were filed.
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A. few minutes after 7 o’clock in the evening of December 4, 1875, as the steam ferry-boat John S. Darcy, coming from the Pavonia ferry, Jersey City, with a strong flood-tide, was about entering her slip at Twenty-third street, North river, she came into collision with the tugboat I. L. Fisher, striking with her bows the starboard side of the tug, a little aft of the engines, doing both vessels some damage, for which the above cross-libels were filed. The entire slip from Twenty-second to Twenty-fourth street is about 536 feet wide by 650 feet deep. The two ferry landings at the head of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
Upon the evidence, I must find that the place of collision was less than 100 feet outside of the end of the Twenty-second street pier, nearly abreast of that pier, and in the usual track of the ferry-boats of that line in entering the Twenty-third street slip, in a strong flood-tide. I must further find that the pilot of each of those boats saw the other in ample time to avoid the collision, and understood perfectly the movements, course, and intention of the other. The pilot of the ferry-boat, when about opposite Seventeenth street, and one-third of the distance across the river, and being…
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