HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge.
The widow of an American seaman seeks damages because of the death of her husband following a fall into the waters of a French harbor. Her theory is that members of the crew of the American Angler were negligent in the performance of a duty of assistance, arising under French law, when her thoroughly drunken husband was attempting to find his own ship, the Keystone State.
At approximately 11:45 P.M. on March 31, 1961, McClure was attempting...
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