Neel v. Blythe

I shall not discuss the question of jurisdiction, hut, following the later decisions, will regard the case as one cognizable in a court of admiralty, and proceed at once to a consideration of the merits of the controversy. The libel charges, in substance, that the defendants’ fleet of water-craft and rafts of timber, — composed of three barges, five coal-boats, a flat-boat, and several rafts, — which was lying in the Monongahela river at Monongahela City, was improperly, negligently, and insufficiently moored and tied up, and that by reason of negligence in that regard said .fleet broke away…