Peterson v. Independent Stevedore Co.

McNARY, District Judge.

Plaintiff brings this- action, under section 33 of the Merchant Marine Act (46 USCA § 688), to recover damages for injuries sustained by him while employed as a stevedore assisting in loading a Japanese vessel at Coos Bay, Or.

It is alleged that the plaintiff received his injuries as the result of the carelessness and negligence of the defendant.

The defendant contends that section 33 has no application to this ease, for the reason that the plaintiff was working on a foreign vessel and that said act gives a remedy only to seamen working on American ships; or, in other…