Brown v. Cornell Steamboat Co.

BROWN, District Judge.

In a northeast storm of extraordinary violence on the night of November 26, 1898, the libelants’ loaded scow, No. 31, which had been made fast in a fleet of six boats at a rendezvous in the Hudson river off Haverstraw, preparatory to being towed to New York, broke adrift and was blown upon the rocks on shore. The above libel was filed to recover the damages.

The scow had been loaded with stone near Verplank’s Point, and towards evening of the 26th was taken from there by one of the respondent’s tugs and towed to the usual place of making up such tows off Grassy Point,…