Smith v. North German Lloyd S. S. Co.

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought by Julia C. Smith, to recover the value of certain articles of personal apparel alleged to have been abstracted from her baggage, while in transit from Cherbourg, France, to New York in February, 1905. The libellant left Moscow, Russia, on the 5th of February, for the purpose of taking a North German Floyd steamer from Bremen, but was unable to catch it there and decided to go by way of Paris, which place she reached the 8th day of February about 8:é5 o’clock in the morning and as soon as the office of the respondent there was opened, purchased a…