Horowitz v. Hamburg-American Packet Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the City Court of Hew York, which affirmed a judgment for the plaintiff rendered at Trial Term upon a verdict in the plaintiff’s favor. Action to recover damages for personal injury sustained by the plaintiff, while a passenger upon one of the defendant’s steamships, from the careless piling of baggage, upon a part of the deck to which the passengers were allowed access, by the officers and crew.
1Opinion of the CourtBischoff, J.
At the time of the accident the plaintiff, then upwards of fifty years of age, and four of her children were passengers on board of the defendant’s steamship “Augusta Victoria,” plying between the city of Hamburg, in Germany, and the port of Hew York. On August 28, 1892, the vessel had arrived at the end of the voyage and was moored to the dock at Hoboken, Hew Jersey, awaiting the disembarkment of her cabin passengers. Pending such disembarkment the steerage passengers, including the plaintiff, were^without caution or remonstrance on the part of those in command, permitted to occupy the upper…
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