Grand Trunk Ry. Co. of Canada v. Griffin

Gray, Justice.

This case, though involving but a small amount, presents interesting questions of law.

The owners of the steam-tug Magnet filed a libel in personam against the Grand Trunk Eailway Company of Canada, to recover damages sustained by the schooner Cumberland while being towed* by the steam-tug. The libel alleged that in the afternoon of December 2, 1882, while the schooner and tug were passing with a flood-tide from east to west through a draw in the railway company’s bridge .across Back Bay, a part of Portland harbor, and the wind blowing hard from the north, the draw-tender…