Foster v. Marine Transp. Lines, Inc.

CAFFEY, District Judge.

This is an application by libellant for an order permitting him to serve a supplemental libel adding the United States of America as a party respondent. The libel was filed on February 17, 1945. It alleges that the libellant was employed as a seaman on the steamship Maltran, a merchant vessel of American registry operated by the respondent, Marine Transport Lines, Inc., and that on July 5, 1943, the vessel was torpodoed by enemy craft, as a result of which *54he was seriously injured. It further alleges that, under the ruling of the Marine War Emergency Board, effective…