MICHIE, District Judge.
The issue in this case is whether the libellant, Coolidge Spratley, was at the time he was injured a seaman-member of the crew and therefore entitled to maintain this action in admiralty.
Coolidge Spratley was an employee of the respondents (hereinafter, Tidewater) at the time of his injury on September 17, 1963. Tidewater was involved in construction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and in furtherance of that project maintained...
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