Featherston v. The Jackson

BROWN, District Judge.

The collision in the above case occurred as the Republic was entering her slip on the Brooklyn side. The libelant’s canal boat hung by a short line of five or ten feet from the stern of the Randolph, the outer of four boats on the starboard side of the tug Jackson, which lay at the end of the pier that formed the upper side of the ferry slip. The Jackson and her tow were heading up against the ebb tide, until another boat could he taken on by the tug from the slip above. The northwest wind blew the libelant’s boat around into the ferry slip; and at the time of the…