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BEDDOO v. SMOOT SAND & GRAVEL CORPORATION

No. 8030.

128 F.2d 608 (1942)

BEDDOO v. SMOOT SAND & GRAVEL CORPORATION.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 8, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Jacob N. Halper, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Frank H. Myers, with whom Messrs. Norman B. Frost and Frederick N. Towers, all of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and EDGERTON and VINSON, Associate Justices.

GRONER, C. J.

This is an action, brought under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920,1 to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by appellant while employed on board a river dredge owned and operated by appellee. The District Court dismissed on the ground that appellant was not a "seaman" within the meaning of the act nor a "member of a crew" within the meaning of the exclusion provision of the Longshoremen...

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