Jordine v. Walling

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered upon the verdict of a jury in a civil action for maintenance and cure. The action was begun by a seaman and prosecuted after his death by his administratrix. The appeal presents two questions of law for our consideration. The first question is 'whether the district court had jurisdiction, in the absence of diversity of citizenship, to entertain the plaintiff’s cause of action for maintenance and cure in a civil action brought and tried under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 11 as distinguished from a…