Fetan v. Atlantic & Caribbean Steam Nav. Co.

BYERS, District Judge.

This is a common-law action in which the plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him on June 28,1931, while he was in the act of boarding the defendant’s steamship' Caracas, offshore, in the harbor of Santa Anna, island of Curacao, Dutch West Indies.

At the dose of the taking of testimony, both sides moved for the direction of a verdict, without reservation. This requires that this eourt shall decide all questions of fact and law. See Williams v. Vreeland, 250 U. S. 295, 39 S. Ct. 438, 63 L. Ed. 989, 3 A. L. R. 1038, Beuttell v. Magone, 157…