Loring

By the Court,

On the 17th day of December last, Richard S. Slaughter, Francis II. Reynolds, and Nathaniel Dean filed their several bills of complaint before the judge of First Instance of the district of San Francisco to recover damages for certain grievances claimed to have been committed against them respectively, while passengers on board of the bark Ella Frances, on her passage from Panama to San Francisco. After setting forth the canse of action, each of the complaints alleged that Frederick Illsley was part owner and master of the bark, and prayed that he and the other owners, when made known, and the bark itself might be cited to answer unto the complaint, and condemned in solido to pay the damages respectively claimed, and that the bark might be sold to satisfy the same. Summonses were therefore issued in the several suits, commanding Illsley, the master, to appear and answer the complaints. He accordingly did appear by his attorneys, and put in a several plea of the general issue on his own behalf. There was no answer put in on the part of the bark, or of either of the other owners, no process served upon them, no publication of notice requiring them to appear, and no…