CRONIN v. CUNARD LINE LTD.


250 A.D.2d 486 (1998)

672 N.Y.S.2d 864

William Cronin, Jr., et al., Appellants, v. Cunard Line Limited, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 19, 1998


The motion court properly applied the six-month-from-disembarkation period of limitations for claims other than loss of life and bodily injury set forth in the tickets defendant issued to plaintiffs. "A passenger ticket for an ocean voyage constitutes a maritime contract" (Feingold v Cunard Line, 767 F.Supp. 84, 85 [D NJ], citing, inter alia, The Moses Taylor, 4 Wall [71 US] 411, 427 [1866]), and, as such, should...

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