Parker v. North German Lloyd Steamship Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 2d day of January, 1902, upon the verdict of a, jury rendered by direction of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J. :
The action is brought to recover the value of two trunks and contents which the complaint alleges that the defendant received from him or from his assignor on the 9th day of July, 1900, at Bremen, in the Empire of Germany, for a valuable consideration, under a contract by which the defendant undertook to carry, transfer and deliver them to him at No. 18 Waterloo street, Hove-Brighton, *17England. The evidence establishes the facts that the plaintiff and his wife sailed from New York to Bremen on one of the defendant’s steamers, the Grosser Kurfürst, on June 28,1900, and arrived…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Long v. . N.Y.C.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1872
- Howell v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.of CanadaNew York Supreme Court · 1895
3Cited by1 opinion
- Canadian Pac. Ry. Co. v. WielandCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1915