Oteri v. New Orleans

The facts appear to be substantially as follows :

On the ninth of May, 1884, while the steam-ship New Orleans was in the Gulf of Mexico, on a voyage from New York to New Orleans, at a point about 125 miles south-east from the South Pass of the Mississippi river, her cylinder exploded, killing one of her engineers, injuring others of her crew, and rendering her motive power useless. Thereupon signals of distress for assistance were given from the New Orleans, which were first discovered from the bark Ophir, then on a voyage from Aspinwall to Pascagoula, about 12 o’clock on the night of May 9th,…