Hart v. North German Llyod Steamship Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the North German Lloyd Steamship Company,.from an order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, reversing a judgment of the Municipal -Court of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in favor of the defendant, and granting a new trial of the action.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
The action was brought in the Municipal Court of the city of New York upon a written complaint which alleged that the defendant, a foreign -corporation having an office in the city of New York, owned, - controlled and operated steamships between New York and various foreign ports; that the plaintiff’s assignor, a citizen of the United States, was a passenger upon one of the defendant’s steamships from Italy to New York; that on the 31st _of March, 1903, while said steamship was in the harbor *281of Naples, Italy, during such voyage, by the carelessness and negligence of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Adams v. . New Jersey Steamboat Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1896
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