Stern v. La Compagnie Generale Transatlantique

BROWN, District Judge.

The above libel was bled on March 22, 1900, to recover damages for the death of John V. Poussa, a seaman, from drowning within the waters of New Jersey near Sandy Hook, about noon oí May 14, 1898, through the upsetting of a small lifeboat, in which the deceased was engaged with other workmen in repairing wire cables connecting with some submarine mines. The boat was upset, as alleged, by the too near approach of the respondent’s steamer Ea Touraine, outward hound, in going through the channel way 300 feet in width, between the mines, in the strong flood tide.

The accident…