Karvouniaris v. The British S/S Marietta

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

In three causes of action, libellant, employed as an oiler aboard the respondent vessel Marietta, seeks (1) the balance due for earned wages, (2) a recovery for damages allegedly resulting in libellant contracting tuberculosis or aggravating a previously existing inactive tuberculosis, combined with a claim for failure to treat, and (3) a demand for maintenance, cure and wages.

Libellant signed aboard the vessel on March 2, 1957, at Hamburg, Germany. He remained a member of the crew until August 27, 1957, when he was released from the vessel at Shanghai,…