The Southfield

This action is brought by the owners of the canal-boat Annie G. Haeger, to recover for injuries caused to that boat by *842the suction and surge made by the ferry-boat Southfield, in passing the canal-boat on the morning of the eighth of May, 1882. The canal-boat was moored at the bulk-head, between Stapleton and the Wrecker’s pier, on Staten island, andvwas there discharging a cargo of malt. She lay with her bow to the northward, with her stern some 25 feet from the line of the north side of the Wrecker’s pier, and was made fast to the bulk-head by a four-inch bow-line, a four-inch stern-line,…