This is a libel in admiralty brought under the Death on the High Seas Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 761 et seq., (1920), by the father of the deceased child, as administrator of his son's estate. Libellant alleges that decedent became ill while traveling as a passenger on the high seas on board a regular passenger vessel, belonging to respondent shipowner, and that he subsequently died.
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