O'NEAL v. United States

CAMPBELL, District Judge.

This is an action in admiralty, alleged to have been brought under the Public Vessels Act of March 3, 1925 (Comp. St. Supp. 1925, §§ 1251% — 1 to 1251% — 10), by a seaman on the United States Coast Guard ship Seneca, to recover damages alleged to have been caused to the libelant while in the perf ormance of his duty, by the explosion of a shell which was in the hands of the gunner’s mate, and comes before this court on exceptions filed by the respondent to the libel filed herein.

So much of the Act of March 3, 1925, as is necessary for consideration in the ease at bar…