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ANTONIO MAIA, Respondent, v. LAMPORT HOLT, LTD., Appellant.

PER CURIAM.

Judgment and order unanimously reversed upon the law, with costs and taxable disbursements, and complaint dismissed with appropriate costs in the court below.

Plaintiff has recovered a judgment based upon a tort which occurred on a British vessel in the territorial waters of Brazil. The recovery was predicated upon the negligence of a fellow-servant of the plaintiff. The "Jones Act" (U.S. Code, tit. 46, § 688) is inapplicable. There was neither allegation nor proof, and it may not be presumed, that a similar statute existed either in Great Britain or Brazil. The burden of establishing such laws was upon the plaintiff. ( Christie v. Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., 214 A.D. 820; affd., 243 N.Y. 557; Cuba R.R. Co. v. Crosby, 222 U.S. 473; Mexican Cent. R. Co. v. Chantry, 136 F. 316.)

All concur; present, CROPSEY, MacCRATE and LEWIS, JJ.

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MAIA v. LAMPORT HOLT, LTD
(Jul 24, 1931)