Baer v. United States Lines Co.

This action is brought to recover a sum of money deposited by plaintiff, then a German national, with defendant at Karlsruhe, Germany, December 6, 1938, for a steamship ticket for the passage of plaintiff and his wife on defendant’s steamer scheduled to sail from Hamburg about November 29, 1939; and a further sum deposited for “ board money,” that is, expenses on board the steamer. No ticket was ever issued to plaintiff, and defendant, owing to war conditions, canceled its sailings.

Since no ticket was ever issued the deposit never baeame either passage money or board money. Therefore, the…