Beers v. Hamburg-American Packet Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
This was a libel by Alfred B. Beers against the steamship Nor-mannia, her engines, etc., and the Hamburg-American Packet Company, owner.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The above libel was filed against the-steamship Normannia in rem, and against the Hamburg-American Packet Company, her owner, in personam. The libel alleges false representations made to the libelant by the company’s agents in London just prior to his embarkation on the Normannia on August 27, 1892, and at the time of the outbreak of cholera at Hamburg; that the libelant, who had previously bought a first-cabin ticket for passage by the Normannia from Southampton to New York, but who desired to surrender it in case she carried steerage passengers, through fear of…
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