The Favorita

WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.

In the afternoon of the 14th of April, 1865, the steam ferry boat Manhassett the property of the libellants, was running on the ferry between the foot of Main street, Brooklyn, and the foot of Catharine street, New York. On one of her trips, she came out of the Main street slip, and, when she had advanced into the river sufficiently to enable her pilot to see towards the south-west, past the adjacent pier and the vessels lying thereat, the steamship Favorita was seen coming up the river, within such distance from the Brooklyn side as to suggest danger of collision. The…