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THE SAGUACHE

No. 294.

112 F.2d 482 (1940)

THE SAGUACHE. MEYER v. UNITED STATES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

June 3, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Cahill, U. S. Atty., of New York City, and Harold M. Kennedy, U. S. Atty., of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Myron H. Avery, Sp. Asst. to U. S. Atty., of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for United States.

Lucien V. Axtell, of New York City (Silas B. Axtell, of New York City, and Dominick Blasi, of Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for William Herbert Meyer, libellant.

Before L. HAND, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and PATTERSON, Circuit Judges.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal and a cross-appeal from a final decree upon a libel in admiralty filed by a seaman to recover for personal injuries. The pleading sets forth three causes of action.

The first is to the effect that on the high seas, while the libellant was working as a fireman on the Steamship Saguache, he was ordered to clean and paint the fire-room, that the place where he was required...

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