Marshall v. The Rio Grande

At about half past 11 a. m. of December 13, 1888, as the steamer Rio Grande, coming up the East river in the ebb-tide, was approaching her slip at pier 20, she came in collision with the brig Pickering, about 300 feet off pier 19, doing the latter considerable damage, for which the above' libel was filed. The Pickering was in tow of the tug Demarest, on a hawser of about 10 fathoms, attached to the Pickering’s stern, by which she had just been pulled out of her- slip stern first, preparatory to being taken along-side the tug to be towed up the river through Hell Gate.- Pier 19 is covered by a…