Wiener v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique

WOOLSEY, District Judge.

I grant the motion for a direction of the verdict in favor of the defendant.

I. This is an action brought by the plaintiff, a first cabin passenger from New York *253to Havre, France, on the steamship lie do France in April, 1928.

His trunk was lost in a fire on the French State Railway between Havre and Paris, and the question involved here turns on whether there was a special contract between the defendant and the plaintiff to carry the plaintiff’s trunk to Paris, although, confessedly, the ticket which was issued to him by the defendant was merely to transport him and his…