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SMITH v. UNITED STATES

No. 60.

20 F.Supp. 993 (1937)

SMITH v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

October 21, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. J. & H. W. Waguespack, of New Orleans, La. (Herbert W. Waguespack, of New Orleans, La., of counsel), for libelant.

Lucien Y. Ray, Sp. Atty. in Admiralty, and William I. Connelly, Atty., U. S. Maritime Commission, both of New Orleans, La., for the United States.

BORAH, District Judge.

Libelant, a former member of the crew of the steamship Youngstown, brings this action seeking to recover damages for the injury which he sustained on September 2, 1926. As grounds for relief, libelant charges that on the morning of the day in question he, as boatswain, was ordered by the chief mate to take two able seamen working day work and go down in No. 3 hold and take down such sweat boards as were necessary to enable him to scrape the...

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