PATTERSON, District Judge.
The libelant's intestate, Goodrich, was employed as a water tender on the steamship Davenport, owned by the United States. He signed on at New Orleans on May 7, 1928, for a voyage to Rotterdam and Hamburg. The Davenport left on May 14, 1928. Three days later two men came down sick with what proved later to be typhoid fever. Goodrich was taken ill on the 24th, but apparently recovered for the time being. In all six or seven men out of the...
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