WITT v. UNITED STATES

No. A-17583.

82 F.Supp. 696 (1949)

WITT v. UNITED STATES.

United States District Court E. D. New York.

March 2, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Cantor, of New York City (Louis Dubow, of New York City, of counsel), for libellant.

J. Vincent Keogh, U. S. Atty., of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Joseph K. Inness, of New York City, of counsel), for respondent.


BYERS, District Judge.

Two causes are pleaded in the libel; the first for damages for personal injury, the second for maintenance and cure. The first embraces alleged loss of wages as well as the usual incidents of bodily injury.

Libellant was told by the Port Steward of Moore-McCormack Lines, the operating agent of respondent, to report for duty as chief steward aboard the S.S. David L. Swain, then lying at Norfolk, Virginia. This was on November 18, 1943...

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