Legal Opinion
Kable v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 31, 1948No. 282, Docket 21007PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge.
Libelant, chief officer of the S. S. George Vickers, owned and operated by the United States of America, here appeals from a district court decree denying him any recovery of either damages for personal injuries or maintenance and cure, unpaid wages, and damages for failure to pay wages claimed as a result of an assault upon him by Erik Svedman, chief engineer of the vessel. The facts show a serious and prolonged altercation between the two officers in the early morning of September 19, 1943, while the vessel was lying at the Port of Alexandria, Egypt. Inevitably the…
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