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Excerpt from Chinese Crews and the Wrecking of the Rio:, In the District Court of the United States in and for the Northern District of California, in Admiralty, in the Matter of the Petition of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Owners of the American Steamship
Under the second we will show from the evi dence that the owners themselves, by failing to comply with a United States statute regulating passenger carriers at sea, actually participated in the negligence which occasioned the deaths by which our claimants have been injured.
Judging from awards made by this Court in similar cases, the claimants can show damage amounting to somewhere between and $60, 000. The fund in the registry amounts to about with interest.
In support of our first issue we shall confine our selves to the testimony of the petitioner's prize witness, the pilot Jordan.
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