Gerradin v. United Fruit Co.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, Gerradin, was an American citizen horn at Charleston, S. G. lie was employed as cook’s mate on the steamship Cas-tilla which the defendant, United Fruit Company, a New Jersey corporation, operated under a demise charter. The vessel was owned by the Ellis Steamship Corporation, a New York eompahy, which had chartered her to the defendant. She was registered under the law of Honduras, had never been documented under the laws of any other country and carried the Honduras flag. The plaintiff was hired by the defendant at New York and joined the ship…