Hicks v. The Alabama

BfiüCE, J.

On Monday, the nineteenth day of January, 1885, the steam-boat Alabama navigating the waters of the Alabama river, in coming clown the river on tho south side of the channel opposite the city of Selma, ran against a derrick-boat laying, at the time, on the south side of pier No. 4-, that being the south pier of a bridge then in process of construction across the river at that point, by which collision the derrick-boat was sunk, and the property upon the boat, consisting of a steam-engine, derrick, and tools, were lost, and the libelants, whose property was thus destroyed, bring this…