Moyle v. National Petroleum Transport Corp.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an action by the plaintiff, a seaman on the defendant’s S.S. Transoil, to recover maintenance and cure. He testified that he was well when he joined the ship on November 9, 1936, that he worked thereon as an oiler and later became ill with headaches, fever and continuous coughing and about five days prior to January 15, 1937, was unable to work as an oiler or to stand watch and for that reason was discharged by the First Engineer while the ship was at her dock in Buffalo. On leaving the Transoil he received from the master a certificate for…