Seeley v. Waterman Steamship Corp.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, brought by a seaman under the Jones Act (Merchant Marine Act, 1920, § 33; U. S. Code, tit. 46, § 688), order denying appellant’s motion to dismiss the complaint and to vacate the alleged service of summons for lack of jurisdiction of the defendant’s person and the subject of the action, reversed on the law and the facts, with $10 costs and disbursements, and the motion granted, with $10 costs. This action was instituted by a Massachusetts resident against an Alabama corporation doing business in New York, by reason of an accident which…