Downie v. United States Lines Co.

KRAFT, District Judge.

This action in admiralty for maintenance only is before us on the record made at the trial of Civil Action No. 27626, 231 F.Supp. 192, in which the present libellant recovered a verdict and judgment under the Jones Act.

From the evidence, we make the following

FINDINGS OF FACT

1. On November 5, 1958, libellant was employed as an electrician aboard the S.S. American Builder, a vessel owned and operated by the respondent, and then docked in the Port of London.

2. At about 2 o’clock that morning, while he was asleep in his bunk, libellant suffered a heart attack in the nature…