Silva v. Brown

The plaintiff, a member of the crew of the fishing vessel “Catherine L. Brown,” brought an action in the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts against the United Fisheries Vessels Company to recover damages for injuries to his hand, which became caught in the door of a drag net that was being hauled into the vessel. The first count of the declaration was based on the Jones act, U. S. C. (1940 ed.) Title 46, § 688, and alleged that the defendant corporation owned, operated and controlled the vessel, that the plaintiff was an employee of the defendant…