The W. C. Redfield

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The libel-lants, as owners of the schooner Sarah L. *478Merritt, bring this suit against the steamboat W. C. Redfield, to recover the sum of 55,000, for the damages sustained by them through the sinking of the schooner by means of a collision which took place between the two vessels on the 9th of October, 1867, between five and six o’clock p. m., in the Hudson river, just below the dock at West Camp. Both vessels were bound down the river. The wind was south, and was about ahead to the schooner, and she was beating. The steamboat had two barges lashed to her, one on…