Williams v. United States

BRYAN, District Judge.

The committee of Warner Williams, an incompetent, sues the United States, the owner of the S. S. Nelson W. Aldrich, a merchant vessel, and Moore-MeCormack Lines, Inc. as the general operating agent of the ship, charging that their negligence occasioned and aggravated the mental breakdown of his ward, who had signed on as a messman. With regard to the United States, liability is asserted under the general admiralty law, the Jones Act, and the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C.A. §§ 688, 741 et seq.; the responsibility of Moore-McCormack is predicated on general admiralty…