Legal Opinion
Elias Siegelman, Individually, and as Administrator of the Estate of Eva Siegelman, Deceased v. Cunard White Star Limited
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 17, 1955No. 23054_1PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLAN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff, in his own right and as administrator of his wife’s estate, brings this action to recover for injuries suf-. fered by his wife on the defendant’s vessel, the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth. The action was begun in a New York state court on December 14, 1951, and removed on diversity grounds to the federal district court for the Southern District of New York on January 3, 1952, the requisite jurisdictional amount being present.
On September 9, 1949, the Compass Travel Bureau, Inc., Cunard’s New York agent, issued to Mr. and Mrs. Elias Siegelman a document describing…
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