WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES

No. 7661.

133 F.Supp. 317 (1954)

Warner WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES of America et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

September 24, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry E. Howell, Jr., Norfolk, Va., for petitioner.

L. S. Parsons, Jr., U. S. Atty., and Charles R. Dalton, Jr., Norfolk, Va., for respondent.


BRYAN, District Judge.

The committee of Warner Williams, an incompetent, sues the United States, the owner of the S. S. Nelson W. Aldrich, a merchant vessel, and Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. as the general operating agent of the ship, charging that their negligence occasioned and aggravated the mental breakdown of his ward, who had signed on as a messman. With regard to the United States, liability is asserted under the general admiralty law, the Jones Act, and the...

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