This is an application for leave to compromise an action for the wrongful death of the decedent and other incidental relief. The decedent died November 12, 1953, while employed as a longshore rigger in decommissioning a vessel in navigable waters. He was lowering a lifeboat when the steel bridle broke as a result of which he was thrown into the water and drowned.
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