Ellis v. American Hawaiian S. S. Co.

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the district court denying appellant recovery for wages, maintenance, care, cure and repatriation to his port of shipment based upon his disablement from an injury claimed to have been received in the course of his employment while in Manila, P. I.

Though the testimony of appellant, libelant below, was heard by the district court the facts the appellant there stated are undisputed and hence we are entitled to consider the cause de novo.

Appellant, in the port of San Pedro, California, shipped as third assistant engineer on the S. S. Cape…