The Sylvester Hale

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This act.on is brought to recover the value of the schooner G. R. Murney, a vessel owned and commanded by the libellant. John Mum---, which was sunk on the night of the 20th of July, 1S72, by colliding with the schooner Sylvester Hale in Long Island Sound. The Murney was a canal schooner laden with coal, upon a voyage from Elizabetkport. N. J., to Norwich. Conn. The Hale vims a schooner bound from Taunton to Elizab-th-port light. The Murney was going four or five, the Hale six or seven miles an hour under a good sailing breeze. The night was clear and nearly as light…