De Moraes v. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MASTERSON, District Judge.

These are actions by a merchant seaman to recover maintenance and cure (C.A. 68-1460) and damages (C.A. 68-1549) from his ship-owner employer because of disability sustained at sea. Defendant has moved that these actions be transferred to the District Court for the Southern District,of .New York pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). This section gives the District Court a broad discretion to transfer the action to a proper and more convenient forum. 1 J. Moore, Federal Practice (2d Ed. 1964) ][ 0.145 [5]. In exercising this discretion the initial…