Libelant, employed as a seaman by respondent, seeks to recover damages, maintenance and wages under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688. His cause of action is based on the alleged unlawful abandonment of libelant at the port of Soerabaja, Java, on June 16, 1946.
Respondent's defense to the alleged cause of action is that the master of the vessel on which libelant worked acted reasonably...
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