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McGHEE v. UNITED STATES

No. 198.

154 F.2d 101 (1946)

McGHEE v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

March 5, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Logan, Jr., and John F. X. McGohey, U. S. Atty., both of New York City (Hunt, Hill & Betts, and Geo. Whitefield Betts, Jr., and Helen F. Tuohy, all of New York City, of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

Jacquin Frank, and William L. Standard, both of New York City (Charles Glatzer, of New York City, of counsel), for libellant-respondent.

Before L. HAND, CHASE, and FRANK, Circuit Judges.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The United States appeals from a decree in the admiralty, awarding damages to the libellant for an illness occasioned by exposure, resulting from the sinking of the respondent's "Liberty" ship, "Thomas Hooker," on March 6, 1943, on which the libellant was serving as a "wiper" in the engine room. The ship was lost in the Atlantic because of the cracking of her plates in a heavy sea, after she had nearly completed a westward voyage in convoy...

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