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BRISLIN v. UNITED STATES

No. 5676.

165 F.2d 296 (1947)

BRISLIN v. UNITED STATES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

December 30, 1947.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Duke Avnet, of Baltimore, Md. (Donald G. Murray of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellant.

C. Ross McKenrick, Asst. U. S. Atty., Southgate L. Morison, and George W. P. Whip all of Baltimore, Md. (Bernard J. Flynn, U. S. Atty., Ober, Williams, Grimes & Stinson, and Lord & Whip all of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellees.

Before PARKER, SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in admiralty in a suit instituted under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, to recover damages on account of personal injuries sustained by a seaman. Libellant was the assistant radio operator on the steamship Henry Ward Beecher, a vessel owned by the United States. On January 6, 1945, during the course of a storm, he was injured by the falling open of a high-frequency radio transmitter, the shelf and heavy mechanism of...

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