Butler v. Boston & Savannah Steamship Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT (JOURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR ' THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. The court, in its opinion, stated the case as follows: The two cases are so intimately connected, both in the proceedings and in the questions arising therein, that it will be most convenient to consider them together.
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT (JOURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR ' THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. The court, in its opinion, stated the case as follows: The two cases are so intimately connected, both in the proceedings and in the questions arising therein, that it will be most convenient to consider them together. They arose out of the stranding, sinking and total loss of the steamship City of Columbus, on Devil’s Bridge, near Gay Head,, at the west-' ern extremity of Martha’s Yineyardj and near the mouth of Yineyard Sound, on thé 18th of January,. 1881. .Most of the passengers and cargo were lost,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
• We will first consider the principal point taken in the cause of damage, instituted by the appellants, to which the owners of the steamship pleaded the pendency of- the proceedings in the cause of limited liability; and will then discuss the questions presented in 'both causes;, and those which are peculiar t.o' the cause last ñamed.
In the former cause the principal point raised was, that the law of limited liability does not apply to personal injuries, and hence that the appellants were not bound to litigate their claim in the limited liability cause; but had a right to file a separate and…
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