| United States. Supreme Court - 1953 - 874 pages
...Congress has conferred an American right of action which requires nothing more than that plaintiff be "any seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the course of his employment." It makes no explicit requirement that either 571 Opinion of the Court. the seaman, the employment or... | |
| 1922 - 1052 pages
...33. That section 20 of such Act of March 4, 1915, be, and Is, amended to read as follows: " 'Sec. 20. That any seaman who shall suffer personal Injury In...election, maintain an action for damages at law, with the right of trial by jury, and in such action all statutes of the United States modifying or extending... | |
| Roger Foster - 1920 - 1432 pages
...clause concerning workman's compensation law is previously explained.2 By the Act of June 5, 1920, "Any seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the...election, maintain an action for damages at law, with the right of trial by jury, and in such action all statutes of the United States modifying or extending... | |
| Erich Walter Zimmermann - 1921 - 724 pages
...33. That Section 20 of such Act of March 4, 1915, be, and is, amended to read as follows : "Sec. 20. That any seaman who shall suffer personal injury in...election, maintain an action for damages at law, with the right of trial by jury, and in such action all statutes of the United States modifying or extending... | |
| New York (State). Courts - 1922 - 998 pages
...1920. Barnes Federal Code, Supp. of 1921, § 7568. This act provides that a seaman who has suffered personal injury in the course of his employment may, at his election, maintain an action at law for damages and that in such action " all statutes of the United States modifying or extending... | |
| 1922 - 1052 pages
...8337a; Barnes' Federal Code, Supp. of 1921, § 7568. This act provides that a seaman who has suffered personal injury in the course of his employment may, at his election, maintain an action at law for damages and that in such action "all statutes of the United States modifying or extending... | |
| United States - 1923 - 716 pages
...to fishing or whaling vessels or yachts. (R. 8. 4516; Mar. 4, 1915, sec. 1.) Fellow-servant Clause. Any seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the...election, maintain an action for damages at law, with the right of trial by jury, and in such action all statutes of the United States modifying or extending... | |
| 1925 - 1042 pages
...well as in that of the owners of the Edna, and on that portion of the act in question which provides " that any seaman who shall suffer personal injury in...employment may at his election maintain an action, etc." But we find in the act no expression of the intention of Congress to enlarge the admiralty jurisdiction.... | |
| 1924 - 872 pages
...Merchant Marine Act of June 5, 1920, 41 Stat. 1007. This statute provides : " That any seaman who suffers personal injury in the course of his employment may,...election, maintain an action for damages at law with the right of trial by jury and in such action all statutes of the United States modifying or extending... | |
| 1923 - 756 pages
...That section 20 of such Act of March 4, 1915, be, and is, amended to read as follows: " ' Sec. 20. That any seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the course of the employment may, at his election, maintain an action for damages at law, with the right of trial... | |
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