Taylor v. Atlantic Maritime Co.

L. HAND, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff was a seaman, who died, after appealing from a judgment summarily dismissing his complaint in an action to recover for aggravation of his illness by the shipowner’s failure to give him proper care while he was ill of tuberculosis on board the ship. The complaint also alleged that the plaintiff became ill because the ship was unseaworthy, but, since that was a maritime fault, like the failure to care for him after he became ill, it does not affect the result. The plaintiff was a citizen and resident of Panama, and the owner was a corporation, organized under…