Cornwall v. The New York

On the 16th of August, 1887, the libelant’s canal-boat, \Y. F. O’Rourke, was taking a cargo of ice at a landing by some spiles driven close alongside the dike opposite Mould’s ice-house on the east side of the North river, a little below Oreoubush, and about a quarter of a mile above Dow’s point. At 6 i>. m., when her cargo was nearly completed, she was drawing about six feet of water in a depth of about seven *758feet or a little over. At that time the large passenger steamer New York, of the day line from New York to Albany, passed the landing, and through the suction and swell thereby produced…