The Kolon

BENEDICT, District Judge.

These two actions are brought, one by the owner of the canal boat Hope, the other by the owner of the cargo of the same vessel, to recover damages resulting from the sinking of the canal boat on the 22d day of November, 1S75, near the pier at the foot of Seventy-Ninth street in the East river.

The Hope was lying outside of another boat that was moored at the bulkhead, south of the pier, at the foot of Seventy-Ninth street, with her stern towards the pier. After the Hope had taken this position the schooner Kolon took a position at the end of the pier, at the foot of…