Legal Opinion
Schoenamsgruber v. Hamburg American Line
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 8, 1935No. Nos. 424, 425PublishedCited by 154 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butler
Petitioner in No. 424 is the minor daughter of petitioner in No. 425. Each filed a libel in admiralty in the district court for northern California against respondents claiming damages on account of personal injuries alleged to have been inflicted upon the child while she was a passenger on the Oakland. The libels assert that the wrongful act constituted a breach of respondents’ contract to carry the child safely from Hamburg, Germany, to San Francisco. The answers, in addition to denying material allegations of the libels, allege that the contract contained the following provision: “…
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