Voyiatzis v. National Shipping & Trading Corporation

THOMAS F. MURPHY, District Judge.

In this action under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, and General Maritime Law for personal injuries by an alien seaman against a foreign shipowner, defendants raise by motion, before answer, the recurring troublesome problem of the applicability of United States laws in foreign-seamen and foreign-owner cases.

Plaintiff, a Greek subject, on March 9, 1960, at Piraeus, Greece, signed an employment agreement to proceed to the Liberian flag, S.S. National Unity, then at West Hartlepool, England, and owned by defendant Noya Compañía Naviera, S. A., (a Panamanian…