Osipuk v. Oceanic Steam Nav. Co.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

Antonia Osipuk, a Russian girl 16 years old, was a passenger on respondent’s steamship Majestic bound from Cherbourg to New York. When attempting to enter the third-class lounge located in an island house on the C deck of the steamship forward of the bridge, she had the two middle fingers of her right hand crushed between the edge and frame of the door through which she was passing. According to her testimony, which was believed by the trial judge, the door slammed on her hand owing to the pressure of the wind, and caused injuries which necessitated the…