Hampton v. Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co.

Appeal from the order granting plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial.

The parents of the plaintiffs, John C. Hampton and Helen M. Hampton, his wife, were passengers on the steamer City of Chester, August 22, 1888, bound from San Francisco to Eureka, Humboldt Bay, and were drowned by the sinking of said vessel, in consequence of a collision with" the steamer Oceanic, operated and controlled by the defendants, in the entrance to the bay of San Francisco, between Fort Point and Lime Point, and near the latter. The action is for damages for the death of the plaintiffs’ parents, upon the. ground that…