Royle v. Standard Fruit & Steamship Co.

Action under the Jones Act (U. S. Code, tit. 46, § 688) to recover damages for personal injuries to a seaman, alleged to have been caused by negligence. Cross appeals from order dated September 19, 1944, granting plaintiff’s motion to strike from defendant Standard Fruit & Steamship Company’s amended answer the defense based on a two-year Statute of Limitations, and its setoff and counterclaim, as modified by order dated January 23, 1945, granting reargument and, on reargument, denying that part of the original motion which sought to strike out the defense of payment, described as “ set-off…