Docket No. 2198.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
on behalf of
William Stevenson, individually and as Administrator of the Estates of Janet W. Stevenson and Elizabeth P. Stevenson, Deceased,
Claimant,
v.
GERMANY.
BY THE COMMISSION: –
Janet W. Stevenson and her infant daughter, Elizabeth P. Stevenson, were lost on the Lusitania. This claim is put forward on behalf of William Stevenson, husband and father respectively of the decedents. At the time of the sinking of the Lusitania the claimant was a subject of Great Britain, but through naturalization he became an American citizen on the 21st day of September, 1916. According to the record no American national suffered any damage through the deaths of the decedents which can be measured by pecuniary standards or through the loss of the personal property which they had with them.
Applying the rules announced in Administrative Decision No. V and in other decisions of this Commission to the facts as disclosed by this 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 not obligated to pay to the Government of the United States any amount on behalf of the claimants herein.
Done at Washington January 7, 1925.
EDWIN B. PARKER,
Umpire.
CHANDLER P. ANDERSON,
American Commissioner.
W. KIESSELBACH,
German Commissioner.
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