Meyer v. United States

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal and a cross-appeal from a final decree upon a libel in admiralty filed by a seaman to recover for personal injuries. The pleading sets forth three causes of action.

The first is to the effect that on the high seas, while the libellant was working as a *483fireman on the Steamship Saguache, he was ordered to clean and paint the fire-room, that the place where he was required to work “was extremely hot, without ventilation and almost at a point of suffocation * * * that thereafter he became very sick, had a cough, was unfit for duty and in an…