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JOHNSON v. FLEET CORPORATION

Nos. 5, 32, 56, and 123.

280 U.S. 320 (1930)

50 S.Ct. 118

74 L.Ed. 451

JOHNSON v. U.S. SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION. U.S. SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION ET AL. v. LUSTGARTEN. FEDERAL SUGAR REFINING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD., ET AL. v. U.S. SHIPPING BOARD MERCHANT FLEET CORPORATION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 6, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Silas B. Axtell and Myron Scott, the latter pro hac vice by special leave of Court, with whom Messrs. Charles A. Ellis, Challen B. Ellis, and C. Alexander Capron were on the briefs, for Johnson and Lustgarten.

Mr. Oscar R. Houston, with whom Mr. F. Herbert Prem was on the brief, for the Federal Sugar Refining Company.

Mr. John C. Crawley for the Royal Insurance Company et al.

Mr. Claude R. Branch, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Hughes, Assistant Attorney General Farnum, and Messrs. J. Frank Staley and Chauncey G. Parker, General Counsel, U.S. Shipping Board, were on the briefs, for the United States and the Fleet Corporation.

MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

No. 5.

August 1, 1920, petitioner was an unemployed seaman. The steamship Jacksonville, then lying in the port of Jacksonville, Florida, was a merchant vessel owned by the United States and operated for it by the Fleet Corporation. On that day, petitioner went aboard to seek employment and, when returning to the shore, fell from the gangplank and suffered serious...

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