The Marshall O. Wells
District Court, D. New Jersey
In Admiralty, Suit by the Perth Amboy Dry Dock Company, as owner of the schooner Marshall O. Wells, for limitation of liability, in which Jacob Elzer, Sr., administrator, claimed damages for the death of Rudolph Elzer in collision. Claim for limitation allowed, and decree for damages in favor of claimant.
1Opinion of the Court
RERTSTAB, District Judge.
On the 3d day of June, 1905, Rudolph Elzer, while employed on a small power boat, met his death in New York Bay, in consequence of said boat being run into and sunk by the schooner Marshall O. Wells. On the 20th day of May, 1907, Jacob Elzer, Sr., as administrator of Rudolph Elzer, brought suit in the Circuit Court of the United States for this district against the Perth Amboy Dry Dock Company, owner of the schooner, for $25,000 damages, alleging that said death was caused by the careless, unskillful, and negligent handling and managing of said schooner by the agents…
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