Mitchell v. the Etna

JONES, Circuit Judge.

The decree here appealed from allowed an employer to intervene in the admiralty suit which his employee had instituted against third persons for damages for personal injury and accorded to the employer a right of subrogation, in respect of the employee’s recovery, to the extent of the compensation and medical expenses theretofore paid by the employer in accordance with the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act 1 because of the injury which was the subject-matter of the employee’s suit for damages. The relevant facts out of which the present controversy…