The John Tucker

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The libel in this case alleges, that, on the night of the 11th and 12th of February, 1871, the steamboat Sylvan Glen, owned by the libellants, was, lying at the lower side of pier 24, East river, that being her regular pier of landing on the East river, properly and securely made fast for the night, with her stern as far in' the slip as she could get, with her fan-tail close against the vessel lying at her stern, and with her bow heading out of the slip, though a long distance inside of the end of pier 24; that, while she was lying in that position, the ship John…