Wiener v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff was a passenger on the French Line steamship lie de France sailing from New York to Havre on April 7, 1928. He purchased and paid for his passenger ticket for Havre through an agent of the line, and sent three trunks for shipment to the pier. The day the vessel was to sail, he went down to the pier and saw a man seated at a desk. He asked this man. whether he would check the trunks to Paris, and was told that he would. He was also told by the same individual that he would see a representative of the French Line at the Paris station, and that, if…