Mountford v. Cunard Steamship Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort or contract. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Essex dated February 4, 1905. The first count of the declaration alleged in substance that the plaintiff, having purchased a ticket for passage from Liverpool, England, to Boston upon the Ivernia, a steamship of the defendant sailing between those ports, boarded the steamship with her baggage, that “after the pretense of a medical examination of herself by the defendant company’s agents and servants, she was…
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Tort or contract. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Essex dated February 4, 1905. The first count of the declaration alleged in substance that the plaintiff, having purchased a ticket for passage from Liverpool, England, to Boston upon the Ivernia, a steamship of the defendant sailing between those ports, boarded the steamship with her baggage, that “after the pretense of a medical examination of herself by the defendant company’s agents and servants, she was assaulted by the agents and employees of said company and with great force and violence was ejected from said steamship.”…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The first count of the plaintiff’s declaration is in tort, and the gravamen of the charge made therein is that she was assaulted by the defendant’s agents and employees and forcibly ejected from the defendant’s steamship. Her second count avers that she bought from the defendant a ticket for her passage from Liverpool to Boston and paid the defendant therefor, and the defendant in consideration thereof agreed to furnish to her transportation on its steamship Ivernia for such passage; and that she boarded that steamship at the appointed time and place with her baggage and presented her ticket,…
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