District Court, S.D. New York October 22, 1956 (Berendson v. Volo)

RYAN, District Judge.

Libelant, an Estonian citizen, living between voyages in New York at a seaman’s club, signed on in Houston aboard a Swedish vessel. He alleges he sustained injuries aboard while outside the territorial waters of the United States, and seeks to recover under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, and the General Maritime Law of the United States.