No. 6854, Division D.
AINSWORTH, District Judge.
The question presented here is whether a foreign seaman may assert a claim in a federal court against his foreign employer while sailing on a foreign ship for alleged injuries sustained on board the vessel while in American territorial waters.
This libel, asserting causes of action under the Jones Act and the general maritime law, grows out of the alleged injury of a seaman, a citizen of Greece, which...
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