KOZIOL v. THE FYLGIA

No. 260, Docket 23571.

230 F.2d 651 (1956)

Bronislaw KOZIOL, Libellant-Appellant, v. THE FYLGIA and Stockholms Rederi A. B. Svea, of Stockholm, Sweden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided March 7, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Silas Blake Axtell, New York City, for libellant-appellant.

David P. H. Watson, New York City (Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens and James M. Estabrook, New York City, on the brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and FRANK and HINCKS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Libellant, a Polish merchant seaman, signed shipping articles in Argentina on November 7, 1950, to serve as a messman aboard the respondent S.S. Fylgia, a Swedish vessel, and was injured while at sea on November 19, 1950, in descending a stairway on the ship. He has brought to the court below a total of one civil action and three libels, in all of which Judge Clancy has successively refused to take jurisdiction. Originally he made claim under the Jones...

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