PANAMA TRANSPORT COMPANY v. GREENBERG

No. 5770.

290 F.2d 125 (1961)

PANAMA TRANSPORT COMPANY et al., Defendants, Appellants, v. Nathan GREENBERG, Plaintiff, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

May 5, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter X. Connor, New York City, Joseph F. Dolan, Boston, Mass., James P. O'Neill, and Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, on the brief, for appellants.

Daniel J. Hourihan, Boston, Mass., for appellee.

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


PER CURIAM.

A Spanish seaman and member of the crew of the S.S. Esso Rochester was injured on board his vessel on December 6, 1958, while it lay in the harbor of Portland, Maine. On December 9, 1958, a member of the bar employed by the plaintiff-appellee, who is a member, inter alia, of the Maine and Massachusetts bars practicing in Boston, visited the seaman in a Portland hospital and obtained the seaman's signature to a retainer in the following language...

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