City of Washington

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This action is brought by Peter A. Baillie and others, owners of the pilot boat John D. Jones, to recover of the steamship City of Washington some twenty thousand dollars, for the sinking of the pilot boat, in a collision which occurred between those two vessels on the night of March 2Sth, at sea, and about 200 miles from Sandy Hook.

The steamer, bound to the westward, at about 11 p. m. discovered the flash lights of a pilot boat to northward, about abeam, and some four or five miles distant. She replied to the signals, indicating that she wished to receive a pilot…