The Columbia

HUNT, Circuit Justice.

On the night of July 2d, 18GS, the steamship Columbia ran into and sank the schooner Tabitha S. Greer, the said schooner with her cargo, and all the property on board, becoming an immediate and total loss. Said loss occurred without the fault of those on board of the schooner, but by the fault and negligence of those in charge of the steamship, to wit, in going at the speed of eight miles an hour in a dense fog, and in not hearing the fog-horn which was kept constantly sounded by the schooner. The libel was filed on the 4th of February, 1873. It purports to have been…