Lehigh Valley Coal Co. v. The Senator D. C. Chase

A little before 7 o’clock in the evening of March 25,1890, the libelants’ boat, Chunker, No. 2,111, loaded with coal, in tow of the tug D. C. Chase, alongside, and being the third and outside boat on the tug’s starboard side, while going up the East river came into collision with the paddle-box of the ferry-boat Commodore Perry, which was on her way from Grand street, Williamsburg, to Grand street, New York, and was thereby sunk. The cargo was afterwards raised, and the above libel was filed for the damage to the boat. There is considerable conflict in the testimony as to the precise place of…