Legal Opinion
McGhee v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 5, 1946No. 198PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The United States appeals from a decree in the admiralty, awarding damages to the libellant for an illness occasioned by exposure, resulting from the sinking of the respondent’s “Liberty” ship, “Thomas Hooker,” on March 6, 1943, on which the libellant was serving as a “wiper” in the engine room. The ship was lost in the Atlantic because of the cracking of her plates in a heavy sea, after she had nearly completed a westward voyage in convoy. The libellant asserts that the plates cracked because they had been weakened: (1.), by bombings while the ship was at the port of…
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