The Bedford
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York.] In admiralty. This was a libel in rem, filed in the district court, to recover damages for a collision which occurred between the schooner Mary D. Lane and the steam ferry boat Bedford, in the East river, on the morning of the 17th of December, 1853. The district court pronounced for the libellants, [Lane v. The Bedford, Case No. 8,046,] and the claimants appealed to this court
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, Circuit Justice.
The schooner lay at anchor about the middle of the river, near the track of the ferry boats of the Wall street ferry, which ran between the foot of Wall street on the New York side and the foot of Montague street on the Brooklyn side. The collision took place about eight o’clock in the morning. There was a dense fog, the tide was flood, and the wind was southeast The schooner was struck on her port side, near mid-ships, while the ferryboat was on her passage from Brooklyn to New York. The damage was not very serious. The schooner had cast anchor at about twelve o’clock…
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