Vroman v. The Howard

On July 5, 1886, at about 10:30 p. m., as the ferry-boat James Rumsey, from Hoboken, was approaching her slip at Fourteenth street, North river, she came into collision with the barge Moses H. Grinnell, which was going up river lashed to the port side of the tug Howard, and projecting some 30 feet ahead of the latter’s bow. The weight of evidence,'particularly the testimony of Robertson, the ferry*281boat’s witness, who was on the Fourteenth-street pier ringing the fog-bell, shows that the collision was within 300 feet of the ends of the piers, ami about off Fifteenth street, as the boats at the…