Kwasizur v. Dawnic S. S. Co.

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

This is a suit at Law to recover damages for the death of a stevedore who, the statement alleges, was killed through the negligence of the defendants, the owner and manager, respectively, of the vessel upon which he was working. His employer, the stevedoring company, is not a defendant nor is there any charge that it was in any way responsible for the accident. The plaintiff pleads that the cause of action is a maritime tort, as no doubt it is, and expressly invokes the federal Employer’s Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., and inferentially the Jones Act, 46…