The Deer

BLATCHFORD. District Judge.

This is a libel to recover for the damages caused to a ■canal boat or barge and her cargo of brick, through her being run, while in tow of the steamboat Deer, on a sunken pier or dock at the foot of 25th street, East river, New York, on the 8th of May, 1869. The libellant was the owner of the boat, and had the cargo in charge as a common carrier. The libel alleges that the steamboat, for a consideration, undertook to tow the barge from the foot of Hubert street, North river, to a pier ■ on the-Bast river near the foot of 23d street; that, when she arrived oft the…