Phelps v. Steamship City of Panama

Opinion by

Greene, Associate Justice.

Mary Phelps and John S. Phelps, her husband, on the 7th day of July, 1876, filed their libel in the District court of the Third District, for this Territory, against the steamship, City of Panama, etc., in a cause of contract and damage, .civil and maritime. The libel propounds, as constituting their cause of action: (1) That the relation of passenger and common carrier, for hire, subsisted between Mrs. Phelps and the owners of the steamship, pursuant to an undertaking by the owners, that they would safely transport her; and, (2) that the owners were guilty…