Brown v. The Columbia

At about half past 1 in the afternoon of February 12, 1886, as the canal-boat Mary Brown, loaded with coal, was going up the East river, in tow of the steam-tug B. H. AViliiams, and lashed upon the tug’s starboard side, she came into collision with the forry-boat Columbia, not far from Pier 39, and within less than 300 feet of the shore. The ferry-hoat was upon one of her regular trips from M ain street, Brooklyn, to Catharine street, New York. At the time of the collision the tug and tow were headed nearly straight up river, probably a little towards the New York shore, and the ferry-boat…