The General Foy’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““From the specific reading of the lien or privilege statute involved in The Albert Dumois Case [ 177 U. S. 240 , 20 Sup. Ct. 595 , 44 L. Ed. 751 ], the reasonable construction thereof was that it gave a right only to the party injured—the language being: ‘Where any loss or damage has been caused to the person or property of any individual * * * the party injured shall have a privilege.’ Not so with the Illinois, Wisconsin, California, and Oregon statutes, for in each instance it is declared, in effect, that every vessel shall be subject to a lien for all damages arising for injury done to persons or property by such boat or vessel. Statutes more general and comprehensive in terms could hardly have been framed, and they would seem sufficient to comprise such damages as the heirs of the decedent would suffer by reason of such decedent having been wrongfully cut short of his existence. But, however this may be, I feel bound by the decisions of the Circuit Court of Appeals in the cases of The Willamette and The Oregon, supra, standing, as I construe the decision in The Dauntless, unreversed or in any way modified.””

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