Green v. Steamer Helen

The allegations of the libellant are that his schooner, the Wm. H. Eoach, 28 tons register, of Crisfield, Md., was, on the morning of the second of December, 1878, lying in the harbor of Crisfield, at anchor, in a manner not contrary to law, having on board 900 bushels of oysters; that about 5 o’clock a. m., while it was yet dark, the steamer Helen came upon her from the south-west, out of the usual track *917of said steamer, at a high rate of speed, and ran into and so damaged her that she soon filled with water and sank; that at the time a proper light, as required by law, was brightly burning…