Hooper v. The Mary N. Hogan

The decision of this case turns upon the question of fact whether the libelant’s vessel, while being towed by the tug-boat Mary N. Hogan, was towed upon a rock located in the middle ground between liandall’s island and Lawrence point, or on a rock in the channel between Lawrence point and the middle ground, in which channel, as all agree, there has been found since this accident a dangerous rock hitherto unknown. If the tug-boat took the libelant’s boat from the east to the west channel, so close to the buoy that the libelant’s boat struck a rock on the middle ground, the liability of the tug…