Legal Opinion
Dick v. United States Lines Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 3, 1941PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEIBELL, District Judge.
Plaintiff sues for damages for false imprisonment. He claims that he was illegally confined to his room aboard the S. S. “President Roosevelt” by the ship’s officers while that vessel was in the ports of Hamburg, Germany, LeHavre, France, Southampton, England, and Cofth, Eire, in November 1938. In May of that year while on shore leave in Hamburg, Germany, he had been arrested for a violation of the currency laws of Germany and sentenced to six months in jail. At the time of his arrest he was a member of the crew (a musician) of the S. S. Washington, also owned and…
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