The City of Reading

McPHERSON, District Judge.

This is an action to recover damages for the injury caused by a collision that took place about 7 o’clock in the morning of September 18, 1899, between the ferryboat City of Reading and the steamship City of Dundee. The ferryboat is one of a line that plies upon the Delaware river between the cities of Camden and Philadelphia. On the morning in question the river was covered by a fog so dense that objects could not be distinguished at a distance of a few feet. The boat had safely made one round trip between Camden and Philadelphia, and had returned to Philadelphia…