Conover v. The City of Chester

At about balf past 7 in the evening of January S, 1884, the tug-boat Skeer, belonging to the libelant Conover, having the libelant Heckman’s canal-barge Hammill lashed to her starboard side, was waiting near pier 7, Bast river, in the flood-tide, for the tug-boat Amboy, which lay across the slip below, to get out of tho way, so that she might pick up another canal-boat in the slip on the southerly side of pier 7. While thus waiting, and, as I find, substantially at rest, the City of Chester, an Annex ferry-boat running from Jersey City to the bridge pier at Brooklyn, rounded the Battery, and,…