McNally v. The Steam-Tug L. P. Dayton

In this case I find the following facts as between the libellant and the claimant of the steam-tug L. P. Dayton, such facts being found from the libel and the answer of said claimant, no testimony being put in on the part of either of said parties:

On the fourteenth of February, 1879, the boat Centennial, of the burden of about 300 tons, and of which the libellant was master, was taken in tow by the steam-tug L. P. Dayton, *836at the pier foot of Fifty-ninth street, New York, to be towed to the Erie basin, at about 6 :30 p. m. The said boat was loaded with a cargo of wheat. When the Dayton loft…