HARLING v. UNITED STATES

No. 22970.

416 F.2d 405 (1969)

Edwin HARLING, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

September 22, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin S. Nepom (argued) and Ben T. Gray, Portland, Or., for appellant.

Erskine B. Wood, Jr. (argued), of Wood, Wood, Tatum, Mosser & Brooke, Portland, Or., Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Civil Div., Morton Hollander, Chief, Appellate Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Sidney I. Lezak, U. S. Atty., Portland, Or., John F. Meadows, Atty. Admiralty & Shipping Section, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before MADDEN, Judge of the United States Court of Claims, MERRILL and CARTER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Appellant, a seaman on a United States vessel, brought this action for damages based on the alleged unseaworthiness of the vessel.

Appellant's theory as formalized by a pretrial order was that while sleeping on the vessel in Singapore, he was bitten by a mosquito and contracted dengue fever; that the vessel was unseaworthy in that it did not have screens on the portholes to the room in which he slept.

The trial court found against appellant...

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