The Starr
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Admiralty. Suit by Olaf Hanson and Anna Hanson, husband and wife, against the steamship Starr; the San Juan Fishing & Packing Company, claimant. On exceptions to libel.
1Opinion of the Court
CUSHMAN, District Judge.
This matter is before the court upon claimant’s exceptions to the libel. The libel is one in rem to recover for the death of libelants’ son, alleged to have been caused, upon the-high seas, through negligence, in that the vessel’s equipment was defective and that she was insufficiently manned.
The deceased was second mate, at the time of his death, of the respondent steamship, a domestic vessel in the halibut fisheries, hailing from the Port of Seattle. It is alleged that deceased was wifeless and childless and, at the time of his death, was the sole support of…
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- La BourgogneSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Ex Parte McNielSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- The CorsairSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
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