The Venetian

These cases were cross-libels for a collision between the British steam-ship Venetian, of the Leyland line, and the steam ferryboat Revere, owned by the city of Boston, and employed on the East Boston ferry, of which the city is the proprietor. The Venetian arrived in Boston on the morning of March 25, 1886, from Liverpool. At half past 6 a. m. she was proceeding up the channel, between Boston and East Boston, in charge of a pilot, on the way to her dock in Charles.towfi. Her course lay on the starboard or East Boston side of the channel. Her speed through the water, against an ebb-tide, was…