The City of Boston
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Admiralty. Proceeding for limitation of liability. On claim for loss, damage, and injury presented by Mary L,. and Vernon B. Davenport.
1Opinion of the Court
DODGE, District Judge.
On December 18, 1906, leave was given these two damage claimants to file their respective answers, which had not been received at the clerk’s office until after the time limited in the monition had expired. A motion by Mary L. Davenport to dismiss the proceedings or modify the restraining order has been denied, for reasons stated in the opinion filed on the above date. A hearing has since been had on the merits of both the claims which the answers seek to establish.
I find that Mary D. Davenport was a passenger on board the petitioner’s ferryboat City of Boston, at the…
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