Shaw v. The Bridgeport

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This action is brought by the owners of the ship Margaret Evans, to recover some fourteen thousand dollars, being the amount of damages sustained by that ship in a collision which occurred in this port on the 4th of September last.

There is little or no dispute as to the facts of the case, which are these. The Margaret Evans was lying alongside the pier at the foot of Corleare street, and wholly inside the line of the piers below the Hook. While so moored, and between three and four o’clock in the morning, she was run into by the Bridgeport while she was proceeding…