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AIRD v. WEYERHAEUSER S. S. CO.

No. 9294.

169 F.2d 606 (1948)

AIRD v. WEYERHAEUSER S. S. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Reargued February 18, 1948.

Decided August 4, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham E. Freedman, of Philadelphia, Pa. (Charles Lakatos and Freedman, Landy & Lorry, all of Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellant.

Thomas E. Byrne, Jr., of Philadelphia, Pa. (Timothy Jay Mahoney, Jr., and Krusen, Evans & Shaw, all of Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for respondent-appellee.

Leavenworth Colby, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Herbert A. Bergson, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. Frank Staley, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Admiralty and Shipping Section, Department of Justice, on the brief), for amicus curiae.

Before BIGGS, MARIS, GOODRICH, McLAUGHLIN, and O'CONNELL, Circuit Judges.

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

The libellant, John K. Aird, filed in the district court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania his libel in personam in admiralty against Grace Line, Inc. and Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company seeking to recover wages, maintenance and transportation expense by virtue of his alleged wrongful discharge from employment as radio officer on the S. S. Walt Whitman. On May 29, 1942 at Portland, Oregon, Aird had signed shipping articles as radio operator...

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