TITANIC DISASTER.
OWNERS' LIABILITY. LIMITED TO £18,000. AMERICAN LAW OPERATES. I WASHrXtITO'V, May 26. j Tlie .Supreme Court has held that the Titanie's, owners :tro lia.ble only ill :h- | cordance with American maritime law-. This means that the liti-gants will receive nothing, as the law limits American companies' liability to sa.lva.jre from wreck and passenger and freipht money collected from the passentrcr?. a mount ing in the cas,. of the TiUnic : i £IS.OUO. Mr. -Tustice -MeKenna dii»eoteri from I this decision, holdi.nir that British law j ought to apply in tin.' of British I companies. i Suite amounting to £2,600,000 are pending in American Courts.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 125, 27 May 1914, Page 5
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