Docket No. 2190.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
on behalf of
Sara Todd, individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Margaret Todd Millar, Deceased,
Claimants,
v.
GERMANY.
BY THE COMMISSION: –
Margaret Todd Millar, a British subject, then a widow, 42 years of age, without issue, was lost on the Lusitania. She left her surviving as her next of kin four sisters, all of whom were then British subjects, save Eleanor Todd Lindgren, who through marriage had prior to that time become an American national. The claimant Sara Todd, another of the four sisters, through naturalization became an American national on May 9, 1916; and it is alleged that Mary Todd Hall, another sister, “became a naturalized citizen of the United States in the year 1916” and that Ray Todd, another sister, became an American citizen through marriage to Edward Somers McWade in November, 1916.
Her sister Eleanor was the only member of the family of the deceased who was an American national when the Lusitania was lost. So far as disclosed by the record, neither Eleanor nor any of the other sisters of the deceased was dependent upon, or received contributions from, or could reasonably have anticipated receiving contributions from her. The personal effects of the deceased which were lost with her were impressed with her British nationality.
Applying the rules announced in the Lusitania Opinion, in Administrative Decision No. V, and in other decisions of this Commission, 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 or any of them.
Done at Washington January 7, 1925.
EDWIN B. PARKER,
Umpire.
CHANDLER P. ANDERSON,
American Commissioner.
W. KIESSELBACH,
German Commissioner.
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