Boenhardt v. Loch

The plaintiff, in his own behalf and in behalf of all others similarly situated, alleges that on or about June 15, 1904, he was a passenger on the steamboat General Slocum, and received serious and permanent injuries in the disaster that overtook that boat; that the defendants, other than the Attorney-General, as members of the “ Ministers’ Committee,” so styled, received contributions “expressly made for the benefit of the sufferers of the said calamity and for the purpose of being distributed among persons who had sustained injury thereat;” that some of the moneys so contributed have been…