The" Mamie"
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. The “Mamie,” a small pleasure-yacht propelled by steam, was run down and sunk by the steamer “ Garland ” in the Detroit River, July 22, 1880. More than fourteen passengers on the “ Mamie ” were drowned.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. The “Mamie,” a small pleasure-yacht propelled by steam, was run down and sunk by the steamer “ Garland ” in the Detroit River, July 22, 1880. More than fourteen passengers on the “ Mamie ” were drowned. Thirteen different suits, each claiming damages in the sum of $5,000, were, under the statute of Michigan entitled “ An Act requiring compensation for causing death by wrongful act, neglect, or default,” brought in the Superior Court of Detroit, within the Eastern District of Michigan, against the owners…
1Opinion of the Court
Mb: Ohiee Justice Waite
delivered :tlie .opinion of the ■ court. •
The record has not been printed, but the value of the matter in dispute,' as shown by the briefs submitted, is at least the full amount'of all the claims agáinst the owners of the “Mamie ” •in the several-suits which it was the object of. this proceeding to defeat, as against anything else than the boat or her value.. This, according to tbé showing now made, is largely in excess of 85,000.
Motion denied'. '
Mb.- Justice Gray and Mr. Justice Bxatcheobd did ' not sit in this case, nor take any part in deciding it.
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