McInnis v. United States

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty dismissing a libel by a seaman under the Suits in Admiralty Act, alleging him to have been employed on the Steamship Hobart Baker on a voyage for the War Shipping Administration from Wilmington, South Carolina, to Wellington, New Zea-land, against the United States, (a) for injuries received in Wellington from falling from the Hobart Baker’s allegedly insecure gangway and (b) for maintenance and cure.

In the absence of war-time legislation, the libel showed a right of recovery under 46 U.S.C. § 742 and § 741 of the Suits in…