The Majestic

THACHER, District Judge.

These are two suits, by husband and wife, for damages resulting from illness contracted by the wife while traveling with her husband from Cherbourg to New York as a first-class passenger on the steamship- Majestic. Owing to a defective stateroom ventilator, Mrs. Simms was exposed during the voyage to cold blasts of air alleged to have caused the illness from which she has suffered.

The ticket upon which the libelants traveled contained the following clause: “No claim under this contract shall be enforcible against the shipowner or its property *■ * * unless notice…