RYAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff, a seaman, seeks to recover under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, for injuries sustained on October 12, 1945. Defendant was a general agent under the wartime standard form of agency agreement. Defendant moves for permission to serve an amended answer pleading as a separate and complete defense, that it was at the time acting as such general agent for the United States as owner of the S. S. William Blount, on which plaintiff was...
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