Docket No. 494: Mary Hume

Docket No. 494.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
on behalf of
Samuel Elliott Hume, individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Mary Agnes Hume, 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 German Commissioner[a] certifying their disagreement. A brief statement of the facts as disclosed by the records follows:

Samuel Elliott Hume, a native of Ireland, then 22 years of age, married Mary Agnes Elliott, also a native of Ireland and 22 years of age, on December 23, 1910. Subsequently Hume, on April 29, 1915, became an American citizen through naturalization. There was no issue of this marriage. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Hume was a dressmaker; after it she devoted herself to doing the household work and making a happy home for the husband, whose occupation was that of electrical construction foreman. Mrs. Hume, a passenger, was lost with the Lusitania when it was destroyed. She had with her personal effects of the value of $1,341.00.

Applying the rules announced in the Lusitania Opinion and in other decisions of this Commission to the facts as 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 (1) Samuel Elliott Hume individually the sum of eight thousand dollars ($8,000.00) with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent per annum from November 1, 1923, and (2) Samuel Elliott Hume, Administrator of the Estate of Mary Agnes Hume, Deceased, the sum of one thousand three hundred forty-one dollars ($1,341.00) 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.