RODRIGUEZ v. UNITED STATES

No. 275 of 1949.

97 F.Supp. 172 (1951)

RODRIGUEZ v. UNITED STATES.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

February 23, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Freedman, Landy & Lorry, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Gerald A. Gleeson, U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., Leavenworth Colby, Special Asst. to the Atty. Gen., James P. McCormick, Asst. U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


KIRKPATRICK, Chief Judge.

The libellant was a civil service employee of the Army Engineers Corps, serving as a fireman aboard the Dredge "General Gillespie", a public vessel of the United States.

On April 21, 1949, Jones, the second assistant engineer and the libellant's immediate superior officer, ordered the libellant to remove the guard from the blower of one of the boilers for the purpose of installing a new type of guard. The blower is a rapidly revolving...

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