Lillian v. Robinson, as Administratrix of the Goods, Chattels and Credits of Frank Wallis Robinson, Deceased v. Northeastern Steamship Corporation

, SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an action under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, tried before Judge Clancy and a jury, wherein the complaint was dismissed at the close of the plaintiff’s case for failure to prove a cause of action. The plaintiff’s decedent, Frank W. Robinson, was an able bodied seaman employed by defendant as a member of the crew of its steamship, which lay at a dock in the port of Buenaventura, Colombia, South America, on the date of Robinson’s death. While returning to the vessel from shore leave on the night of July 19, 1949, he was run over by a locomotive within the…