Translateur v. United States Lines Co.

There are here two causes of action. The first to recover money paid by plaintiff to defendant at Berlin, Germany, November 25, 1938, for passage for himself and his wife by one of defendant’s steamships from Southampton to New York. Plaintiff, when he paid the money and received the passage ticket was a German national. Before the time for the contemplated voyage had arrived defendant, because of war conditions and in conformity with the Neutrality Act of 1939 (U. S. Code, tit. 22, § 441 et seq.) and the Presidential proclamation thereunder, discontinued its passenger service in the North…