Nawaieha v. Wilder Steamship Co.

This is a suit in admiralty in personam to recover the sum of ten thousand dollars for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by tbe libellant while engaged in loading a cargo of sugar into tlie steamship “ITelene,” belonging to the defendant, Wilder Steamshipi Company.

The allegations of the libel are in substance as follows:

That the defendant, the Wilder Steamship Company, is- a cor*379poration, organized under the laws of the Territory of Hawaii, and on the 20th day of March, 1903, said corporation was engaged as a common earner in the transportation and delivery of merchandise in and…