Paschal v. North Atlantic & Gulf S. S. Co.

LEIBELL, District Judge.

Two actions have been brought in this Court by the guardian ad litem for the infant seaman, Paschal, because of injuries sustained by him aboard the S. S. Israel Putnam, on May 8, 1946. One action (Civil 42-16) was brought on June 6, 1947, on the law side of the Court under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, naming only the North Atlantic & Gulf Steamship Company as a defendant, and charged that said defendant was the operator of the vessel under a general agency agreement with the owner of the vessel (the United States) and that the plaintiff was in the employ of the…