Laverty v. Chalmette

Brown, District Judge.

The libel charges that between 3 and 4 o’clock in the afternoon of December 26, 1891, while the libelant’s lighter Alfred Collins was being moved stern first towards the bulkhead from alongside the steamer Chalmette, which lay on the southerly side of pier 25, North river, the steamer’s propeller was suddenly set in motion and came in contact with the starboard quarter of the lighter, breaking some planks and causing her afterwards to sink. The libel was filed to recover the damages.

*175The evidence shows an oval-shaped wound a little beneath the water line from four to…