Eckert v. Socony Vacuum Oil Co.

DICKINSON, District Judge.

We wish first to make an acknowledgment for the very helpful argument with which wc have been favored by the proctors in this cause.

The final ruling rests on the very narrow ground of the verbiage of the Jones Act (section 33 [46 U.S.C.A. § 688]), but it takes into its scope the underlying principles of the maritime law. Blackstone has made familiar to all of tts a canon of construction of statutes which is very illuminating and helpful. It is to consider “the old law, the mischief and the remedy.”

The libelant has suffered injuries to his person, redress for which he…