Docket No. 46
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
on behalf of
Samuel James Ferguson,
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 record follows:
The United States on behalf of Samuel James Ferguson asserts this claim for losses sustained by him resulting from the death on the Lusitania, on which they had taken third-class passage, of his wife and infant son. Claimant, by occupation a mechanic, was at that time and has ever since been an American national. At the time of death Mrs. Ferguson was 23 years old and her son 15 months of age. The surviving husband and father was then 22 years of age.
No claim is made for property lost.
Applying the principles and rules announced in the Lusitania Opinion to the facts of this case 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 the Government of the United States on behalf of Samuel James Ferguson the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent per annum from November 1, 1923.
Done at Washington February 21, 1924.
EDWIN B. PARKER
Umpire.
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[a] Dated February 14, 1924.
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