The Zodiac

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The li-bellants, as owners of the schooner William Wallace, bring this libel against the steamship Zodiac, to recover the damages sustain*937•ed by tbem in consequence of the total loss of the schooner through a collision, which took place between her and the steamer, about midnight on the 6th of October, 1872, in the Atlantic Ocean, off Cape May. The schooner was bound from Boston to Philadelphia, in ballast. The steamship was bound from North Carolina to the city of New York. She struck the schooner about amidship, on the port side of the schooner.

The libel alleges…