Resigno v. F. Jarka Co.

The legislation known as the Jones Act, or the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, applies to the cause of a stevedore who receives fatal injuries upon a foreign vessel in an American port, while engaged in loading or unloading the same as an employee of an American stevedoring corporation. International law permits, and the Congress has authority to subject, foreign merchant ships to the jurisdiction of the United States when within its territorial waters. In Cunard S. S. Co. v. Mellon (262 U. S. 100) Mr. Justice Van Devanter said: “ A merchant ship of one country voluntarily entering the…