ROCHE, Chief Judge.
This action is brought under the Public Vessels Act, 46 U.S.C.A. §§ 781-790. As alleged in the libel, libelant was employed as a utility man in the stewards' department of the General M. C. Meigs, a public vessel, as a civil service employee of respondent, United States of America, on December 18, 1952. On December 22, 1952, libelant became ill. He was hospitalized and treated for tuberculosis at the Marine Hospital, San Francisco, from...
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