Heath v. The St. Johns

On the 4th of January, 1887, at about 10 o’clock in the morning, as the large side-wheel passenger steamer St. Johns was making her daily trip from Sandy Hook to New York, she came in collision with the libelant’s canal-boat S. A. Pyatt, off Castle Garden, striking with her stem the starboard side of the canal-boat about 10 feet from her stern, and making a deep wound, which caused largo damage to the boat and cargo; to recover which this libel was filed. The canal-boat was in tow along the starboard side of the steam-tug Gen. Rosecrans, bound from near the Pennsylvania Feny dock, Jersey…