Bradey v. United States

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a decree in the admiralty which upon stipulated facts dismissed a libel against the United States. The libellant, an administratrix, was the mother of the intestate — a fireman in the service of the Navy on board the destroyer, “Parrott,” — who died in 1944 as the result of injuries caused by a collision between that ship and the “John Morton”, a vessel owned by the United States. The libel alleged, and for the purposes of this appeal it must be assumed, that the collision was due, in part at any rate, to the negligence of those on board the “John…