BELLOCCHIO v. ITALIA FLOTTE RIUNITE COSULICH LINE, ETC.

No. 414.

84 F.2d 975 (1936)

BELLOCCHIO et al. v. ITALIA FLOTTE RIUNITE COSULICH LINE LLOYD SABAUDO NAVIGAZIONE GENERALE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

July 6, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Ruggieri, of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Anthony J. Travia, of Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for appellants.

Loomis, Williams & Donahue, of New York City (Homer L. Loomis and Thomas F. Peterson, Jr., both of New York City, of counsel), for appellees.

Before MANTON, L. HAND, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff was a passenger upon the defendant's steamer, and while disembarking at Naples got her foot caught under a plank and was injured. Her account of the occurrence is very vague and gives some plausibility to the defendant's argument that it leaves too much to conjecture to support a verdict. Nevertheless we think there was enough to show how she was hurt, and that it might have been due to some lapse in that high degree of care which...

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