Case ID: ill-app_191/html/0588-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mrs. C. W. Kennedy, Defendant in Error, v. Great lakes Dredge & Dock Company, Plaintiff in Error.
    Gen. No. 20,457.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    Shipping, § 7
      
      —when recovery allowed for the loss of personal effects. The judment below is affirmed for the reason stated in Kennedy v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Go., No. 20,456, ante, p. 585.
    Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. George J. Cowing, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1914.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed March 8, 1915.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Mrs. C. W. Kennedy against the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company to recover the value of personal effects lost in the collision of a steamer • and a scow in tow of defendant’s tug.
    Plaintiff in this case is the wife of C. W. Kennedy, defendant in error in Kennedy v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. (No. 20,456), ante, p. 585, and the collision out of which the two actions arose and the facts involved are the same.
    To reverse a judgment for plaintiff for $225, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.
    Kremer & Greenfield, for plaintiff in error.
    Menz I. Rosenbaum and Maurice Alschuler, for defendant in error.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.