De Lelle v. The Atalanta

The libel was filed for damages caused to the libelant’s canal-boat Wm. E. Cleary, while she was discharging brick at the City dock, Yonkers, through the suction and swell caused by the steam-yacht Atalanta in passing down the North river. The evidence shows that the yacht was going at the rate of a little less than 14 knots; that the tide was flood, and within about an hour of high water; that her weaves are about the same as those of the largest steamers that go up the North river; that she passed about half a mile from the shore; that she was in the habit of slowing when she received any…