The Steamboat New World v. King
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an a.ppeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. It .was a libel filed by King, complaining of severe personal injury, disabling him for life, from the explosion of .the boiler of the steamboat, New World, while he was a passenger, on her passage from Sacramento to San Francisco, in California.
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This was an a.ppeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. It .was a libel filed by King, complaining of severe personal injury, disabling him for life, from the explosion of .the boiler of the steamboat, New World, while he was a passenger, on her passage from Sacramento to San Francisco, in California. The District Court decreed for the libellant in twenty-five hundred dollars damages and costs; and the owners of the boat appealed to this court. The substance of the evidence is stated in the opinion of the court. 4. The steamboat was not…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Curtis
This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, sitting in ■admiralty. The libel alleges that the appellee was a passenger on board the steamer on á voyage from Sacramento to San Francisco, in June, 1851, and that, while navigating within the ebb and flow of the tide, a boiler flue was exploded through neg*473ligence, and the appellee grievously scalded by the steam and hot water. •
The answer admits that an explosion occurred at the time and place alleged in the libel, and that the appellee was on board and was injured thereby,…
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