Weinberger v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique

ADAMS, District Judge.

The libellants, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Wein-berger, bring this action to recover the damage caused to their and their children’s baggage, while passengers on the respondent’s steamship La Savoie, during a voyage from Havre, France, to New York, in December, 1905. The passage ticket was issued at the respondent’s Paris office to the Weinberger family the evening before sailing. It appears that in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Weinberger, there were in the party covered b)’ the ticket, two children and two maids, six persons in all. They had twenty pieces of baggage, of which a…