Rose Brick Co. v. The Mascot

About noon on the 11th of April, 1891, the libelant’s barge Roseton, loaded with brick, in tow of the steam-tug Mascot, on a hawser, while going up the artificial canal which runs to the southward and eastward from Newtown creek, was run upon a sunken rock a little to the eastward of Stag street, and from 55 to 65 feet off from the southerly side of the canal. Subsequent examination showed that this rock was a sharp peak, rising up about 15 incluís above the level of a flat rock, about 9 feet long by 8 feet wide, which was situated a few inches only below the muddy bottom of the canal.…