The City of St. Louis

NETERER, District Judge.

Libelant charges that the steamship City of St. Louis is an American vessel, operated as a common carrier of freight and passengers for hire between the ports of Savannah, in the state of Georgia, and the city of New York; that on the 3d day of September, 1915, she took passage thereon at the port of Savannah for the port of New York, and paid for and was provided second cabin accommodations, and that while the steamship was off the coast of Cape Hatteras, and while libelant was asleep, “the said steamship gave a sudden lurch and tossed said libelant from the berth…