Old Custom Sustained by Supreme Court New York, June 18.
The Supreme Court has handed down a decision practically sustaining the age-old custom of burial at sea in a case against the Royal Mail Steam Packet Ca, for damages of $10,000 each to Mrs. Katherine Huff and five relatives because her husband wus buried at sea without Mr. Huff, according to the evid-ice, died on an ocean voyage for his health, The officers of the vessel in which he was travelling testified that there was no other course but burial at sea.
The jury disagreed and the case was dismissed—Reuter.
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