BURKE v. PACIFIC TOWBOAT & SALVAGE CO.

No. 62-18.

208 F.Supp. 623 (1962)

Ralph B. BURKE, Libelant, v. PACIFIC TOWBOAT & SALVAGE CO., Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. California, Central Division.

June 29, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan F. Bullard, San Pedro, Cal., for libelant.

Robert Sikes, Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent.


WESTOVER, District Judge.

Libelant filed a libel in personam for wages and for maintenance and cure, alleging that while employed on respondent's vessel, "E. A. JUDD", a sea-going tug, he sustained an injury described as an inguinal hernia. The facts of the case are not in dispute; and it has been stipulated that maintenance is to be computed at the rate of $8.00 per day.

It appears libelant was employed as a cook on respondent's tug. Prior thereto he had...

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