Beulah L. Neville and John W. Neville v. American Barge Line Company

BIGGS, Chief Judge.

The appellant, Beulah Neville, cut her hand using a meat cleaver to open a can of condensed milk in the galley of the M. V. “Tradewinds,” owned and operated by the appellee, American Barge Line Company. Mrs. Neville and her husband, the latter’s right to recover being of course contingent on proof of a legal claim by his wife, sued American for damages in Admiralty under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688 alleging that it had failed properly to equip the Trade-winds with can openers, and that for this reason the Tradewinds was unseaworthy and American negligent. Evidence…