Briggs v. Day

The above suits grow out of a, collision which took place at about 7:15 i>. m. on September 22, 1882, in the Hudson river, a little above Pavonia ferry, near the Jersey shore, between the steam-tug II. W. Hills and the scow or float Mohawk, which was in tow of the steam-tug Titan, and upon her starboard side. The plaintiff in the suit first above named was a dock hand upon the Hills, and was knocked down, stunned, and injured by the collision. He brought suit in the supreme court of this state against the owners and the charterers of the Hills and the owners of the steam-tug Titan, claiming…