Wilson v. McCormick Steamship Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment for plaintiff entered upon the verdict of a jury in an action for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff in the course of his employment as a seaman, resulting from a fall through an open hatch into the hold of the ship owned by his employer, the defendant company. The action was brought pursuant to the provisions of the Jones Act (46 U. S. C. 688), which extends to a seaman the right to recover in an action at law for injuries sustained in the course of his employment and resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of…