Case Name: Antonio Maia, Respondent, v. Lamport & Holt, Ltd., Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1931-07-24
Citations: 141 Misc. 140
Docket Number: 
Parties: Antonio Maia, Respondent, v. Lamport & Holt, Ltd., Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 141
Pages: 140–140

Head Matter:
Antonio Maia, Respondent, v. Lamport & Holt, Ltd., Appellant.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, Second Department,
July 24, 1931.
Wollman & Wollman [Henry Wollman and Aaron B. Coleman of counsel], for the appellant.
Isador Leifer, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Judgment and order unanimously reversed upon the law, with costs and taxable disbursements, and complaint dismissed with appropriate costs in the court below.
Plaintiff has recovered a judgment based upon a tort which occurred on a British vessel in the territorial waters of Brazil. The recovery was predicated upon the negligence of a fellow-servant of the plaintiff. The " Jones Act " (U. S. Code, tit. 46, § 688) is inapplicable. There was neither allegation nor proof, and it may not be presumed, that a similar statute existed either in Great Britain or Brazil. The burden of estabhshing such laws was upon the plaintiff. (Christie v. Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., 214 App. Div. 820; affd., 243 N. Y. 557; Cuba R. R. Co. v. Crosby, 222 U. S. 473; Mexican Cent. R. Co. v. Chantry, 136 Fed. 316.)
All concur; present, Cropsey, MacCrate and Lewis, JJ.