Docket No. 291
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
on behalf of
Edward Dingley,
Claimant,
v.
GERMANY.
PARKER, Umpire, rendered the decision of the Commission.
This case is before the Umpire for decision on a certificate of the American Commissioner and the German Commissioner[a] certifying their disagreement. A brief statement of the facts as disclosed by the records follows:
On February 7, 1910, Edward Dingley, a machinist, then a naturalized American citizen 35 years of age, married in New York Catherine Glenn, a native of Ireland then 35 years of age, by occupation a “maid”. Following her marriage Mrs. Dingley devoted herself to the duties of housewife and to assisting her husband in creating and maintaining a comfortable and happy home. There was no issue of this marriage. Mrs. Dingley was a passenger on and went down with the Lusitania. Both she and the claimant were then 40 years of age. There was lost with her personal effects and cash of the value of $1,770.00.
Applying the rules announced in the Lusitania Opinion and other decisions of this Commission to the facts disclosed by the record, the Commission decrees that under the Treaty of Berlin of August 25, 1921, and in accordance with its terms the Government of Germany is obligated to pay to the Government of the United States on behalf of Edward Dingley the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent per annum from November 1, 1923, and the further sum of one thousand seven hundred seventy dollars ($1,770.00) with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent per annum from May 7, 1915.
Done at Washington February 21, 1924.
EDWIN B. PARKER,
Umpire.
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[a] Dated February 14, 1924.
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