Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-11-30 | Page 23 | Supreme Court Will Decide Titanic Case

SUPREME COURT WILL DECIDE TITANIC CASE! WASHINGTON. Nov. 29. The question of the liability of tho owners of tho Titanic Ti-tanic for paymoht in full of the millions of dollars of claims for Ions of lives and property came today before tho supremo court from the circuit court of appeals at New York. Tho owners of tho Titanic, the Oceanic Steam Navigation company, petitioned tho federal court In New York to limit list liability under American law to the value of the salvage, tho freight and passage money collected on the ocean voyage that was never comploted. The passage money amounted to $S5,;000 and tho freight and salvage brought tho total to-tal to $91,000. At the time the company filed Its petition. October 4. 1912. $1,000,000 worth of claims had been Med.