Burstein v. United States Lines Co.

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

The question involved herein is whether Rev.Stat. § 4283A, 46 U.S.C.A. § 183b, forbidding the owner of' a vessel to require a shorter time than six months for notice of, and one year for suit upon, “claims for loss of life or bodily injury” of its passengers, applies to a claim by a husband for loss of services and medical expenses for injury to his wife. Though the district court held the wife’s claim for her own injuries to be within the protection of the statute, .it decided otherwise as: to the husband’s consequential claim for damages and granted a summary judgment…