La Bourgogne

BROWN, District Judge.

Certain damage claimants having answered the petition in the above matter alleging negligence on the part of La Bourgogne, and in effect the privity of the petitioner in such negligence, the established order of proceeding requires that those questions which afflict all the damage claimants alike, should be first determined in this court before'it proceeds to take further proof of the damages upon the numerous individual claims presented. The petitioner on this motion asks that that order of proceeding be reversed. This should not be done, unless the petitioner admits…