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STEAMBOAT NEW WORLD ET AL. v. KING

57 U.S. 469 (____)

16 How. 469

THE STEAMBOAT NEW WORLD, EDWARD MINTURN, WILLIAM MENZIE, AND WILLIAM H. WEBB, CLAIMANTS AND APPELLANTS, v. FREDERICK G. KING.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Cutting, for the appellants, and by Mr. Mayer, for the appellee.

Mr. Justice CURTIS delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, sitting in admiralty. The libel alleges that the appellee was a passenger on board the steamer on a voyage from Sacramento to San Francisco, in June, 1851, and that, while navigating within the ebb and flow of the tide, a boiler flue was exploded through...

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