MURPHY, District Judge.
This is a libel in personam brought under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, and the General Maritime Law by a messman employed aboard the S. S. Linfield Victory. Libelant slipped on a "film of water" on the vessel's deck and he attributes his injuries, however minor, to the negligence of respondent and the unseaworthiness of the vessel.
The evidence showed that at the time of the accident high seas intermittently washed over the...
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