Finley v. Atlantic Transport Co.
New York Supreme Court
Motion by plaintiff for a judgment upon the complaint and the demurrer thereto.
1Opinion of the CourtShearn, J.
The complaint shows that plaintiff is the son of Clement B. Finley, deceased, who died , on board of defendant’s steamship Minneapolis while a passenger on the voyage from London to New York, leaving “ no wife living nor any relative nearer "than the plaintiff; ” that upon the death of the deceased the *481defendant took possession of his property and effects, valued at $750', “ which amount greatly exceeds the sum that would have been required to defray the expenses of notifying the plaintiff of the death of the deceased and embalming the body of said Clement B. Finley and transporting it to the…
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