Koistinen v. American Export Lines, Inc.

The plaintiff, a seaman, rated as a fireman and watertender, on the S. S. John N. Robins, was injured while on shore leave in the port of Split, Yugoslavia, on February 3,1946; he went ashore about noon; in the exercise of a seaman’s wonted privilege he resorted to a tavern where he drank one glass of wine like to our familiar port; thereafter in the course of a walk about town he visited another liquid dispensary where he quaffed two glasses of a similar vintage; there he met a woman whose blandishments, prevailing over his better sense, lured him to her room for purposes not particularly…