J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.
On January 21, 1958, Lumus Rose was signed on the S. S. Margaret Brown under foreign articles as a messman at a base salary of $259.52 a month. On the early morning of January 23, 1958 while on shore leave, Rose was struck by a taxicab when he was running to catch a streetcar. Initially respondent, the owner of the S. S. Margaret Brown, had refused to pay Rose his wages to the end of the voyage and his maintenance on the ground that...
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