The Pioneer
District Court, N.D. California
This was a petition by A. M. Simpson and others, owners of the American schooner Pioneer, for limitation of their liability in respect to a claim by Robert Lynas for personal injuries sustained while engaged as a shipwright in making repairs to the schooner.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, District Judge.
This is the usual proceeding, under sections 4282-4285 of the Revised Statutes and the rules of the supreme court of the United States made thereunder (G-en. Adm. Rules 54-58), to determine and limit the liability, if any there be, of the owners of the American schooner Pioneer for certain injuries alleged to have been sustained by one Robert Lynas, while employed on said schooner. Lynas instituted, on November 25, 1895, an action in the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco, state of California, against the petitioners in this proceeding and one Gr. T.…
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