The Utopia

A reference to a commissioner was ordered to ascertain and report the damages. 1 Fed. Bep. 892. The commissioner reported as follows:

In pursuance of an order of reference, dated March 13, 1880, whereby the undersigned was directed to ascertain and compute the amount of damages sustained by the libelants, by reason of the collision in the pleadings mentioned,—

I, John A. Osborn, the undersigned commissioner, do hereby report that I have been attended by the counsel for the respective parties and by the witnesses, and have taken and examined the evidence, and do find as follows:

On the sixth day…