The Avid

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This action is brought to recover for the destruction of the long-boat of the bark Algiers, by being crushed by the barge Avid, during the night of the '14th of February, 1869. The bark and the barge were both moored alongside pier 28, in the East river. The long-boat was hanging under the bark’s counter, close down by the water, the ropes running from the stern, there being no davits. While in this position, the ice came into the slip, during the night, with sufficient force to part the barge’s fastenings, and drive her ahead upon the long-boat, thus doing the injury…