CONGER, District Judge.
In this case I decided that the libellant could not recover under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, but I would accept jurisdiction under the General Maritime Law and that recovery could only be under the Honduran law (see opinion rendered in open court on February 24, 1954). Since then libellant has proven the Honduran law.
Normally, I believe the procedure would be to send libellant back to Honduras to present his claim but it...
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