Codrington v. United States Lines Company

FREDERICK van PELT BRYAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a seaman on the S. S. America, sues defendant, the owner and operator of the vessel under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688 for personal injuries suffered in an assault upon him by a fellow crew member. Plaintiff charges that his assailant was. of vicious propensities and that the shipowner was negligent in signing and retaining him with knowledge of his dangerous disposition. It is also alleged that the vessel was rendered unseaworthy by the defendant’s failure to furnish crew members who were equal in disposition to the ordinary men of…