Persson v. Falsen

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States, at Norfolk, declining to take jurisdiction of a libel in rem by appellant, a seaman, who is a citizei1 of Sweden, against a Norwegian steamship, the Eir, on a claim of damages for personal injuries received while working on board as a member of her crew,

' The libelant signed on the Eir at Mobile as a member of her crew, and, while the vessel -^as lying in Hampton Roads, he, along with other members of the crew, was engaged in chipping the furnace, when a particle of mat-lodged in his eye, as a result of which this…