Duryea v. Mayor of New York

At about half past 2 o’clock in the afternoon of December 23, 1889," as the libelants’ two-masted schooner Highland, in tow of the tug Sterling, on a hawser of from 30 to 35 fathoms, was coming westward on the ebb tide through Hell Gate by way of the middle passage between Flood rock and Mill rock, she came in collision with the respondents’ steam-tug Dasori, which had a light scow in tow along-side, and was bound up the Harlem river. The schooner was struck on the port side, near her main chains, and sustained damages for which the above libel was filed. As the tug in tow passed Hallett’s…