Docket No. 2202.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
on behalf of
George Robshaw,
Claimant,
v.
GERMANY.
BY THE COMMISSION: –
Florence, the wife of Dick Lockwood, and her son, Clifford, and her daughter, Lillian (the latter 7 years of age), were lost with the Lusitania. Dick Lockwood, and alien resident of New Jersey, United States of America, survived. Neither Florence nor Clifford Lockwood was an American national. The minor Lillian was born in New Jersey.
This claim is put forward on behalf of George Robshaw, an American national, for the death of his sister, Florence Lockwood, his nephew Clifford, and his niece Lillian. The record negatives the claim that George Robshaw suffered any damage by reason of the death of his sister, his nephew, or his niece which can be measured by pecuniary standards. The husband of Florence and the father of Clifford and Lillian survived and continues to reside in New Jersey. The frank statement is made in the record that the claim is not presented in his name because he is not an American citizen, but that if an award is made on behalf of the claimant, Robshaw, he will “give it to Mr. Lockwood”. Obviously there is no genuine American interest, beneficial or otherwise, represented by the claimant herein.
Applying the rules and principles announced in the Lusitania Opinion, 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 claimant herein.
Done at Washington January 7, 1925.
EDWIN B. PARKER,
Umpire.
CHANDLER P. ANDERSON,
American Commissioner.
W. KIESSELBACH,
German Commissioner.
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