Radovcic v. the Princ Pavle

BRIGHT, District Judge.

The libellant, a Yugoslav citizen, seeks to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him on March 28, 1941, while engaged as a seaman upon the Steamship Princ Pavle, a Yugoslav vessel, flying the flag of that country, and while the vessel was on the high seas en route to the United States. The claim is that the vessel was unseaworthy. The respondent denies unseaworthiness, and alleges as a defense that the sole remedy of the libellant is under the Yugoslav Workmen’s Insurance Law.

The accident which caused the injuries occurred about eight o’clock in the…