Jensen v. Hamburg-American Packet Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Hamburg-American Packet Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Quéens on the 5th day of May, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of May, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes; also from an order made upon the coming in of the verdict granting the plaintiff an…
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Appeal by the defendant, the Hamburg-American Packet Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Quéens on the 5th day of May, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of May, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes; also from an order made upon the coming in of the verdict granting the plaintiff an additional allowance; also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day of May, 1897, denying the…
1Opinion of the Court
Bradley, J.:
The plaintiff was a steerage passenger on the defendant’s steamship Fuerst Bismarck, leaving New York April 11, 1895, on the passage from there to Hamburg. The- sea began to be rough on the thirteenth; and on the fourteenth of April there was a storm and heavy sea, the ship rolled and took water on the deck, so much so-that the iron doors on the weather side, which was the port side, were closed and the hatches were closed. The passengers were thus shut off from going from that side on to the deck. The steerage passengers were in the compartments in the aft part of the vessel. The…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Bowen v. . New York Central Railroad Company.New York Court of Appeals · 1858
- Palmer v. . Pennsylvania Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1888
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