Legal Opinion
O'Neill v. Cunard White Star, Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 5, 1947No. 174, Docket 20477PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff' appeals from an order of the District Court, refusing to transfer her action from the law to the admiralty side of the court, to be prosecuted as a libel in personam. The plaintiff, a British subject, filed a complaint as administratrix of Richard O’Neill, her husband (also a British subject) against the Cunard Line, a British corporation having a place of business in the Borough of Manhattan. She sued to recover damages resulting from the intestate’s death, while serving as an able seaman upon a ship belonging to the defendant. O’Neill had “signed on” in…
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