Write a commentThe family of a local fatality in the Lusitania sinking seek compensation in the courts!
The Frontier Sentinel 23 October 1915
Campbell v The Cunard Steamship Co.
This was an application on behalf of Mrs Campbell to have allocated a sum of £267 2s 5d lodged in Court in respect of the los of her husband, Patrick Campbell, late of Clontygora, near Newry, who was an employee on board the Lusitania when she was torpedoed off the South of Ireland by a German submarine. Mr O’Hagan, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the applicant.
His Honour decided to allow the applicant £88. the three eldest children £30 each, and the balance to be divided between the two youngest children. The money for the children he directed to be lodged in the Post Office.
