MEDINA, Circuit Judge.
This wholly unnecessary appeal is due to the circumstance that the trial judge followed the all-too-prevalent practice of giving instructions consisting of an aggregate of legal platitudes, which most of the jurors had probably heard repeated on numerous other occasions, without any delineation whatever of the factual issues in the case.
Plaintiff was an ordinary seaman aboard the Alabama, an oil tanker owned by defendant; and he was...
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