Chervy v. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD.
District Court, S.D. California
1Opinion of the Court
CURTIS, District Judge.
The court finds that libelants’ status as passengers terminated the morning upon which the SS ARCADIA arrived at Long Beach. After libelants had left the ship and removed their luggage their rights to re-board the ship as passengers no longer existed. When they went aboard in the evening, they boarded not as passengers, but as guests. This being so, the respondents are en titled to rely upon the exculpatory provisions of the boarding pass as relieving them from ordinary acts of negligence.
Although the provisions of Title 46 U.S.C. § 183c prohibit the owners of vessels…
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- Lawlor v. Incres Nassau Steamship Line, Inc.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1958
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