Shields v. Mayor

This action was brought to recover damages for an injury to the libelant’s canal-boat, James S. Oakley, on the morning of November 20, 1880, by the steam-tug Municipal, at the end of pier 37, East river, at the foot of Market street. The Oakley had arrived that morning, at 5 o’clock, with a cargo of coal consigned to that dock, and the captain, finding the slip full of boats, so that he could get no further inside, moored on the lower side of the pier, with the bows of his boat projecting about 15 or 20 feet outside of the end of the pier into the river. Ast 6:20 a. m. the Municipal, a…