Cokeley v. The Snap

The libelants in this case are the owners of the canal-boat Transport, and file their libel to recover damages for negligence iri the performance of a towage contract. On the twenty-ninth of February, 1884, the steam-tug Snap took in tow, at the foot of Sixth street, in Hoboken, New Jersey, the canal-boat Transport, loaded with about.230 tons of bituminous coal, consigned to Spuyten Duyvil creek. She proceeded up the river with a fresh, south-westerly wind, and when she reached the mouth of the creek was unable to enter on account of the accumulations of ice on the eastern shore of the river,…