Legal Opinion
Estate of Kustel
Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco
Decided August 11, 1884No. 3498Published
1Opinion of the CourtCoffey, J.
Captain Alexis 0. Kustel was a member of the firm of Kustel & Wightman, having their principal place of business in San Francisco, but engaged in commerce in the South Sea Islands. In 1883, June 24, Captain Kustel set sail from the Island of Apia for another island of the Samoan group, in a leaky and unseaworthy vessel; during the night of his departure a fearful storm arose, and neither the vessel nor any of her crew or passengers was heard of subsequently hitherto; and by mariners and others conversant with the circumstance the vessel has been given up as lost with all .on board. Now comes…
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