U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Louisiana April 6, 1891 (O'Carroll v. The Havre)

Pardee, J.

The libelants, some 20 odd in number, alleging that they were steerage passengers on board the steam-ship Havre, on her voyage from the port of Antwerp, via Bordeaux, to the port of New Orleans, made between the 12th of January and the middle of February, 1890, for grounds of complaint against said vessel charge that the master and officers of said vessel, in violation of libelants’