McCabe v. Old Dominion Steam-Ship Co.

At five minutes before 6 o’clock, on the morning of the seventh of May, 1885, the three-masted schooner William S. McCabe, while sailing from the Rappahannock river, Virginia, to the port of New York, laden with affull cargo of grain, when about three miles off the New Jersey coast, and a short distance south of the Scotland light-ship, came into collision with the steam-ship Seneca, belonging to the Old Dominion Steam-Ship Company. The schooner was struck somewhere' between the fore-rigging and her starboard cat-head, and sank in a few minutes. The McCabe hailed from Wilmington, Delaware;…