Emery v. The Osceola

BrtowN, District Judge.

At about 9 o’clock in the evening of September 12, 1891, a collision occurred between the tow of the tug Nannie Lamberton, going up the Hudson river with the ñood-tide, and the tow of the tug Osceola, coming down river, by which the libelant’s canal-boat, the Nell Stone, sustained damages, to recover which the above libel was filed. »

The collision occurred in the narrow channel-way about 400 feet wide, between the “Stone Light,” so-called, on the west side of the Hudson river a fifth of a mile above Van Wie’s point, five miles south of Albany, and the opposite ledge of…