Geoghegan v. Atlas Steamship Co.
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from trial term. Action by Susan Geoghegan, as administratrix of John M. Geoghegan, deceased, against the Atlas Steamship Company, for causing the death of deceased. From a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals. For appeal from order denying a motion for a commission to take-depositions, see 10 1ST. Y. Supp. 121.
1Opinion of the CourtPryor, J.
The action is by an administratrix for damages from the death of her intestate, who, by the alleged negligence of the defendant, fell overboard from its steamer, a British vessel, in the bay of Savanilla, United States of- Colombia. That the actionable quality of an alleged wrong depends upon and is determined by the municipal law of the place of the transaction; that in a suit here, proceeding upon an alleged wrong committed abroad, the court, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, will presume the coinmon law to be the law of the locality; thát if, by the principles of the common law,…
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