Marshall v. Marshall

BETTS, District Judge.

The sloop Genius, owned by the libellant, when lying at the end of the pier, at Tenth street on the Bast river, was pressed against and injured by the steamer Goliah, owned by the respondent. The Goliah and Duncan C. Pell, steamers, were engaged in towing the hull of the steam boat Arctic from Rutgers street to the Novelty Works, the Duncan C. Pell on her starboard side and the Goliah on the larboard. The tide was on the last of the flood, and high water. Shell Reef lies off *842.Ninth street, and reaches nearly up to Tenth street, and is about in the middle of the river.…