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BUTLER v. BOSTON STEAMSHIP CO.

Nos. 244, 340.

130 U.S. 527 (1889)

9 S.Ct. 612

32 L.Ed. 1017

BUTLER, v. BOSTON AND SAVANNAH STEAMSHIP COMPANY. BUTLER, v. BOSTON AND SAVANNAH STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 22, 1889.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Eugene P. Carver and Mr. Frank Goodwin for appellants.

Mr. Charles Theodore Russell, Jr., for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.

We will first consider the principal point taken in the cause of damage, instituted by the appellants, to which the owners of the steamship pleaded the pendency of the proceedings in the cause of limited liability; and will then discuss the questions presented in both causes, and those which are peculiar to the cause last named.

In the former cause the principal...

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