Baron v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique

PATTERSON, Circuit Judge.

The action was to recover for personal injuries suffered by Sarah Baron while a passenger on the defendant’s steamship Normandie. A cause of action by her-husband for loss of services was joined. Judge Mandelbaum dismissed the complaint at the close of the plaintiffs’ case, on the ground that the plaintiffs had failed to comply with a stipulation in the steamship, ticket requiring that notice of claim be given in writing within fifteen days after termination of the voyage.

The plaintiffs sailed from New York on July 10, 1935 as passengers on the steamer Normandie bound…