Studwell v. The City of Springfield

This libel was filed by the owner of the canal-boats T. M. Slaight and W. R. Wheeler to recover for the damages sustained by his boats through a collision with the steamer City of Springfield, *159in Hell Gate, between Flood rook and the Astoria shore, at about half past 4- o’clock in the afternoon of May 4, 1885. The canal-boats formed part of a tow of the steam-tug Edna B. Xing, bound westward, wdth the ebb-tide.

The steamer City of Springfield was upon her usual trip eastward, bound from New York to Hartford. The King was a small tug, having only a 16-inch cylinder, coming from the Sound, with…