District Court, S.D. New York September 21, 1978, 75 Civ. 5068 (KTD) (Mears v. American Export Lines, Inc.)

OPINION

KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, District Judge.

Plaintiff George Mears has brought this action to recover for injuries sustained by him while he was serving as an Ordinary Seaman aboard defendant’s ship, the S.S. Export Buyer. Plaintiff claims that the ship was unseaworthy by virtue of the presence on board of a man “unequal in disposition and temperament to other men in the calling.