Traub v. Holland-America Line

OPINION

FREDERICK van PELT BRYAN, District Judge:

This action for personal injuries sustained while plaintiff was a passenger aboard defendant’s Dutch-flag S.S. Rotterdam was tried before me without a jury. The action, commenced in the New York Supreme Court, was removed to this court by the defendant on the ground of diversity.

I

I find the material facts here to be as follows:

On June 29, 1962 Mrs. Traub, a seventy-five year old widow and resident of New York, sailed on the S.S.Rotterdam for Holland. She had purchased her contract of passage from an agent in New York several weeks prior to her…