Korzib v. Netherlands American Steam Navigation Co.

We have no doubt of the respondent’s liability in this case to the libelant, a steerage passenger in her seventeenth year on the steamship Nieuw Amsterdam, whose right eye was totally destroyed by the negligence of the stewardess. The commissioner and the District Judge have awarded her the sum of $7,500. The libelant, whose occupation is that of a domestic servant, suffered considerable pain at the time of the accident, June 20, 1907, and at the time of the hearing before the commissioner in November, 1909, still occasionally suffered some physical pain which reduced her ability to do…