Legal Opinion
Potter v. The Majestic
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 10, 1893PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Libel for damage to passenger’s baggage. Decree for libelants.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The libelants were passengers on the steamship Majestic, which sailed from Liverpool on the 20th of January, 1892, and arrived at New York on the 28th. On disembarking, the contents of their trunks were found badly damaged by sea water. The above libel was filed to recover for the loss.
The trunks had been stowed for convenience of passengers in compartment No. 3 of the orlop deck, the same deck with passengers’ rooms. On the fifth day out, the first officer, on examining the water-tight compartment at about 8 A. M., found two or three feet of water in that compartment,…
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