Docket No. 238.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
on behalf of
Cora A. Page, individually and as Executrix of the Estate of John H. Page, Deceased,
Claimants,
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 record follows:
The United States on behalf of Cora A. Page in her own right and as Executrix of the Estate of John H. Page, Deceased, asserts this claim for losses alleged to have suffered resulting from the death of John H. Page, claimant’s husband, an American national, who was a passenger on and went down with the Lusitania.
At the time of Page’s death he was about 45 years 8 months of age. He was survived by a widow past 44 years of age, who at the time of his death was and has ever since been an American national, wholly dependent upon him for support, and also by two half-sisters not dependent upon him and to whose support he did not contribute The claimant is without knowledge of the present whereabouts of these two half-sisters. The decedent was vice-president of the firm of Mark Cross Company, of New York, at a salary of $2,500 per annum. His future business prospects were bright. He was good in health, of exceptional business ability, industrious, and enjoyed the confidence and respect of his business associates.
He had with him on the Lusitania personal property which was lost of the value of $3,092.00.
Applying the rules announced in the Lusitania Opinion and other decisions of this Commission to the facts in this case as disclosed by the record, the Commission decrees that under the Treaty of Berlin of August 25, 1921, and in accordance with the terms of the Government of Germany is obligated to pay to the Government of the United States on behalf of (1) Cora A. Page individually the sum of eighty thousand dollars ($80,000.00) with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent per annum from November 1, 1923, and (2) Cora A. Page, Executrix of the Estate of John H. Page, Deceased, the sum of three thousand ninety-two dollars ($3,092.00) 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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