Legal Opinion
O'NEILL v. United States
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 23, 1948No. 287 of 1946PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.
This is an action under the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.'C.A. § 741 et seq., brought by a seaman for personal injuries sustained when the tanker Cedar Mills was damaged by an explosion in the harbor of Ancona, Italy, on November 19, 1945. Although not averred in the libel, there now seems to be no doubt that the Cedar Mills was sunk by a German mine. The specifications of negligence in the libel relate mainly to the navigation of the ship, failure to have her protected by degaussing and failure to take proper care of the libellant after his injury.
The libellant…
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