Case ID: f_228/html/0964-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE KRONPRINZESSIN CECILIE.
    (District Court, D. Massachusetts.
    February 1, 1916.)
    No. 1070.
    
    In Admiralty. Libel by Charles W. Rantoul, Jr., against the steamship Kronprinzessin Cecilie, claimed by the North German Lloyd.
    Libel dismissed.
    Kirlin, Woolsey & Hiekox, of New York City, and Blodgett, Jones, Burn-ham & Bingham, of Boston, Mass., for libelant.
    Choate, Larocque & Mitchell, of New York City, Choate, Hall & Stewart, of Boston, Mass., Joseph Larocque and Walter C. Noyes, both of New York City, and Joseph D. Bedle, of Jersey City, N. J., for claimant.
   HALE, District Judge.

In this ease the libelant seeks to recover $5,000 for alleged breach of contract in that the steamship failed to carry him to Plymouth, England, as it had agreed to do. The libel is essentially the same as that of the Guaranty Trust Company (228 Fed. 946), except that the cause of action is based on a contract of passage, instead of a bill of lading. But the libel contains nothing tending to show how the damage was sustained, or upon what basis the amount is demanded. The answer raises substantially the same questions raised by the answer in the Case of the Trust Company. What has been said in the Case of the Guaranty Trust Company applies to this case.

Libel is dismissed, with costs.