HASKELL v. SOCONY MOBIL OIL COMPANY

No. 5114.

237 F.2d 707 (1956)

Alden HASKELL, Jr., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SOCONY MOBIL OIL COMPANY, Inc., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

October 31, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan Greenberg, Boston, Mass., for appellant.

John T. Riley, Boston, Mass., for appellee.

Before MAGRUDER, Chief Judge, and WOODBURY and HARTIGAN, Circuit Judges.


WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the defendant in a suit under the general admiralty law for maintenance and cure from which the claim for cure was dropped at the trial. The facts upon which the plaintiff-appellant bases his claim for relief are not in dispute.

The plaintiff-appellant had worked as an able bodied seaman on the defendant-appellee's vessel Mobilight for about four and one half years before he was injured. During...

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