District Court, S.D. New York January 2, 1891 (Moore v. The City of New York)

Brown, J.

At a few minutes past 7 o’clock on the morning of February 14, 1890, as the steam-boat City of New York, a side-wheel steamer plying between New London and New York, was rounding the Battery in coming out of East river in a dense fog, she came into collision with a fleet of canal-boats that had come up the bay, and was making towards pier 1 in the North river, in tow of the Young