Legal Opinion
Holmes v. O. & C. Ry. Co.
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided July 1, 1880PublishedCited by 22 opinions
In Admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
Deady, H. J.
This suit is brought to recover the sum of §4,900, on account of the death of William A. Perkins, the libellant’s intestate, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant on November 16, 1868, while transporting said Perkins across the Wallamet river, at Portland, on the defendant’s duly enrolled steam ferry-boat Number One.
Substantially, the libel alleges that on September 17,1879, by the order of the county court of Jackson county, Oregon, the libellant was duly appointed administrator of the estate *76of said Perkins, and that pursuant thereto he duly qualified as…
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