NETERER, District Judge.
"* * * Every person * * * who shall be employed or engaged to serve in any capacity on board the same [vessel] shall be deemed and taken to be a seaman. * * *" Section 8392, Comp. St. This court, in Hoof v. Pac. Am. Fisheries Co., 284 F. 174, at page 176, affirmed (C. C. A.) 291 F. 306, said:
"`Seaman' no doubt once meant a person `who can hand, reef, and steer' — a mariner in the full sense of the word. As conditions changed...
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