In re Pacific Mail S. S. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States tpr the Northern District of California.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
The steamship City of Rio de Janeiro, whose home port was San Francisco, on entering the Bay of San Francisco on the 22d day of February, 1901, on one of her return trips from Hongkong and intermediate ports, struck a reef of rocks near the Golden Gate, and within 20 minutes sunk beneath the waters, carrying down a large number of her passengers and crew and all of her cargo. Shortly thereafter, to wit, March 19, 1901, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, owner of the ship, filed in the court below its petition for limitation of liability, alleging therein that the sinking…
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