McDonald v. The Drew

At about half past 4 o’clock in the morning of November 16,1887, during a violent gale from the north-west, the libelant’s schooner Robert Knapp, lying at anchor about half a mile below Caldwell’s point, in the Hudson river, was run into by the steamer Drew, on her trip from Albany to New York. This libel was filed to recover the damages.

Many witnesses on behalf of the claimant insist that the schooner was lying in the usual track of the steamer, and that she exhibited no anchor light, so that she was not seen until the Drew was within 75 or 100 feet of her, when she was disclosed by the…