Plaintiff, a seaman, commenced this action to recover for personal injuries under the Jones Act (46 USC § 688), allegedly sustained on February 1, 1970 when he suffered a myocardial infarction while employed as a night relief engineer aboard defendant's container vessel, The C. V. Seawitch. Plaintiff had been licensed as a third assistant engineer since 1944, but claimed to be unfamiliar...
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