Meus v. The Orange

At about 10 minutes past 3 o’clock in the afternoon of January 2,1891, as the ferry-boat Orange was making one of her usual trips from Barclay street, N. Y., to her ferry-slip at Hoboken, in a dense fog, on the ebb-tide, when about 300 feet below the ferry-slip she came, in collision with the libelants’ barge Clearfield, which was lying near the end of pier 3, causing damage, for which the above libel was filed. The claim*409ants of the ferry-boat thereupon, upon petition under rule 59, brought in the tug Maria Hoffman also as defendant, charging the latter with fault in bringing the Clearfield…