Asprodites v. Standard Fruit & Steamship Co.

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment entered on a directed verdict for the defendant in an action for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, resulting from exposure to live steam which escaped in the engine room of appellee’s ship when a steam pipe pulled loose from the flange connecting it to one of the boilers, the deceased being the engineer on duty at the time of the explosion.

The action was brought under the Jones Act (46 U.S.C.A. § 688), extending to seamen the rights conferred upon railway employees engaged in interstate commerce (45 U.S.C.A. § 51). At the trial, appellant…