Spiegel v. United States Lines Co.

The complaint herein alleges two causes of action. The first is for the recovery of the equivalent of a sum of money in German reichsmarks paid by plaintiff to defendant in November, 1938 at Cologne, Germany, for a passage ticket for the passage of the plaintiff and his wife by one of defendant’s steamers from Southhampton, England, to New York. Plaintiff, when he paid the money and received the' ticket, was a national of Germany. The contemplated voyage originally set for May, 1939, was postponed to December 29, 1939. Before that date war was declared between England and Germany, and in…