Echavarria v. Atlantic & Caribbean Steam Nav. Co.
Decision Date | 03 April 1935 |
Docket Number | No. 6279.,6279. |
Citation | 10 F. Supp. 677 |
Parties | ECHAVARRIA v. ATLANTIC & CARIBBEAN STEAM NAV. CO. |
Court | U.S. District Court — Eastern District of New York |
Leon A. Brody, of New York City (Simon Goldman, of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.
Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City (George S. Brengle and John L. Quinlan, both of New York City, of counsel), for defendant.
This is a motion by the defendant brought on pursuant to rule 107 of the Rules of Civil Practice of the state of New York for judgment dismissing the complaint herein.
The action is for damages resulting to plaintiff and his daughter through the alleged negligence of the defendant in causing the death of Sila Echavarria. In substance, the complaint alleges that the plaintiff is the duly qualified administrator of the estate of the deceased; that he is a citizen and resident of the state of New York, and the defendant is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of Delaware; that on the 11th day of December, 1933, the deceased was a passenger aboard defendant's steamship the steamship Carabobo, and while seated in a chair which defendant had negligently failed to secure and fasten she was thrown therefrom and received injuries which subsequently caused her death. The accident is stated to have occurred while the vessel was on the high seas bound for New York. At the time of her injury the deceased was a citizen of Puerto Rico.
Plaintiff asserts that the Delaware state death statute governs his right to recovery herein. The statute (Rev. Code 1915) provides:
The defendant points to the Federal Death Act of 1920 (46 USCA §§ 761 and 767) and claims that its provisions are exclusive to the extent that actions such as the present are maintainable solely in admiralty. The statute provides:
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