Irene
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Liability of steamship for injury to steerage passenger through negligence in requiring him to come on deck in bad weather to obtain food.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, District Judge.
This action was brought by Pietro Antonio Noris to .recover from the steamship Prinzess Irene, the damages he sustained through a severe injury to one of his legs, received on the 30th of March, 1903, while being transported from Bremen, Germany, to New York. The libellant bought a through ticket from Chiasso, Italy, to Boston, Massachusetts, by way of Bremen and New York. Having reached Bremen he was-received *811as a steerage passenger on the steamship, which sailed for New York on the 28th of March. Two days thereafter, while waiting for some food on the upper deck, he…
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