The Cornwall

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This action is to recover damages sustained by the bark Excelsior, while lying moored at a pier, by contact with the steamship Cornwall.

The bark was placed alongside pier 17, North river, with her stem extending beyond the end of the pier. The Cornwall was a large steamship endeavoring to reach her berth at pier IS on the other side of the slip *585in which the hark was lying. It was necessary for the steamship to warp into her berth;. and in so doing she came up to the ■end of the pier 17, where the hark was lying, inasmuch as she was a long vessel extending in length…