Roff v. The Westfield

On the night of October 18, 1887, at a little after midnight, while' the steam ferry-boat Westfield, running between the Battery and Staten Island, was on her way from St. George’s to Stapleton, to lie up for the night, and pursuing her usual course, she came in collision with the libelant’s pilot-boat, the Lillie, some 200 or 300 yards off, the Corinthian Yacht Club dock, at Tompkinsville, and a little to the southward of it, doing considerable damage to the pilot-boat, for which the above libel was filed.-

The preponderance of proof shows that at the time the Westfield came along there was…