Stewart v. The Fulda

On the fourth of December, 1886, after dark, between 7 and 8 i\ m., as the steam-tug D. Bingham was entering the slip of the Bremen line at Jersey City, in order to lake a canal-boat loaded with coal from the bulk-head to and along-side the Fulda, for the purpose of coal*352ing her, the tug ran against a hawser, which was stretched from the starboard quarter of the Fulda, lying on the southerly side of the slip, across to a spile about 90 -feet distant from the outer end of the pier, on the northerly side of the slip. The collision carried away the tug’s pilothouse and smoke-stack, and inflicted…