Hartt v. The N. B. Starbuck

On the fourteenth of September, 1884, the steam-tug Starbuck, with the Wallace, a large vessel, lashed upon her port side, went up the East river with the flood-tide, for the purpose of landing the Wallace along the side of the Noble-street pier, Brooklyn. On account of the size of the Wallace, it was necessary to land her first against the outer end of the pier. While the tug, some distance out in the river, was rounding to against the tide for that purpose, the libelant’s schooner, Nellie Bloomfield, bound for the same dock, ran in and occupied the-end of tlio pier. A few minutes before,…