Hardy v. The Raleigh

On the morning of May 8, 1889, a little after sunrise, the libelant’s canal-boat Heaton, being the port boat on the hawser tier of a fleet of boats attacbed by a hawser to the steam-tug Niagara, while the fleet was lying at anchor in about the middle of the Hudson river, between Englewood dock and lnwood, was run into t>y the steam freight-boat Raleigh, in a very dense fog. The Heaton and her cargo were sunk; and the libelant, being carried down with the boat, was nearly drowned. Though revived, he sustained serious, and more or less permanent, bodily injuries.

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