Docket No. 235.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
on behalf of
Robert Dyer,
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:
Robert Dyer, the claimant, who then was and has ever since been an American national, by occupation an iron moulder, then 47 years of age, was a passenger on the Lusitania, which was destroyed May 7, 1915. He suffered from exposure and from shock.
The property which he had with him and which was lost was of a value of $1,200.00.
Applying the principles and rules heretofore announced in the 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 the terms of the Government of Germany is obligated to pay to the Government of the United States on behalf of Robert Dyer the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent per annum from November 1, 1923, and the further sum of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) 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.
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