Dora Mayer and Simon Mayer, Libelants-Appellants v. Zim Israel Navigation Co., Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.
Mrs. Mayer embarked at Haifa, Israel, as a passenger on the respondent’s vessel, S.S. Israel, destined to New York. She was assigned an upper berth. As *563the ship was leaving Haifa, she fell from the berth and suffered a serious fracture of the left leg at its junction with the hip. She claims damages for her injuries, as does her husband for loss of services and consortium.
Mrs. Mayer’s testimony was that the ladder by which she had climbed to the upper berth was movable and that she fell while reaching for it in order to descend. Her claim appears to be that it was…
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