Pennsylvania R. Co. v. The Erastus Corning

The libelants’ schooner Foam, while at anchor in the harbor of New Haven, at about half past 10 p. m., on June 25, 1884, was run into by the steam-propeller Erastus Corning, in coming out of the harbor, bound for New York. The place of the collision, as I find from the weight of evidence, was a little less than one-half of a nautical mile below the Long Dock light, and from one-half to two-thirds of the distance between that light and the Black buoy, and probably from 100 to 200 feet west of a line joining those points, in about nine feet of water at low tide. The buoy is near the western…