Cahill v. Willie

On the ninth day of May, 1885, between 10 and 11 a. m., as the steam-ship Ludgate Hill was lying along the upper side of the slip between Piers 42 and 43 North river, with her stern about 30 feet inside the end of the pier, the tug Willie, with the libelant’s canal-boat lashed on her port side, came into the slip, for the purpose of landing her tow. On the opposite side of the slip were two *154barges moored abreast, leaving a clear space between the barges and the steam-ship of about CO feet. The Willie had previously landed another tow at Pier 36, and then came up the river into the slack-water…