HOLMES, Circuit Judge.
This is a libel in rem. It comprises two major elements: a claim for damages and a claim for maintenance and cure. This appeal is prosecuted by the seaman from a final decree dismissing the libel.
The appellant shipped as an able seaman on a voyage from Mobile, Alabama, to certain European ports, and return to New York, beginning in December, 1936, and ending at New York on February 6, 1937. The appellant alleges that, while the vessel...
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