Maibrunn v. Hamburg-American S. S. Co.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered upon a directed verdict dismissing his complaint at the close of the evidence in an action to recover for personal injuries, suffered while a passenger on the defendant’s steamer Hamburg, bound from New York to Hamburg, Germany. Shortly after 9 o’clock on the morning of March 2d, some four or five days out from New York, the plaintiff was standing at the forward end of the promenade deck, on the starboard corner, looking out on the sea through a glass window which gave forward. A weather shield with glass windows, which ran…