Legal Opinion
Murrary v. . Cunard Steamship Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 6, 1923PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCardozo, J.
The plaintiff left New York on April 24, 1920, as a second cabin passenger on the defendant’s ■ steamship Mauretania. On April 28 he broke his knee cap by a fall upon the deck. His statement is that he caught his foot in a rope attached to a canvas curtain, which had been left unfastened so that it was blown by the wind. The defendant says that he was injured in jumping over ropes which separated the deck for one class of passengers from the deck for another. The vessel reached Southampton on May 2, 1920. The plaintiff went ashore with the aid of a crutch, and was taken by train to London.…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- The MajesticSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Gooch v. Oregon Short Line RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- Northern Pacific Railway Company v. AdamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Fonseca v. Cunard Steamship Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
- New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. BeahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
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