The Nellie

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The libel-lant, as owner of the barge Hudson River, brings this suit against the steamtug Nellie, to recover for the damages sustained by him through a collision, wherein the barge was injured, on the 5th of May, 1873. The barge was lying at the outer end of pier 45, East river, with her stern down, taking in cargo. The tug, with an elevator lashed to her starboard side, came up the river and rounded to, for the purpose of going into the slip next below pier 45, and then proceeded to enter such slip, the tide being flood, and intentionally brought the side of the…