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TAMPA INTEROCEAN S. S. CO. v. JORGENSEN

No. 8506.

93 F.2d 927 (1938)

TAMPA INTEROCEAN S. S. CO. v. JORGENSEN.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 18, 1938.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin W. Yancey, Geo. H. Terriberry, Jos. M. Rault, and Walter Carroll, all of New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Herbert W. Waguespack, of New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before FOSTER, SIBLEY and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

Sigvald Jorgensen, an able seaman of long experience, was injured by falling through the hatchway into the hold of his vessel, and recovered in a jury trial damages of the ship's owner, Tampa Interocean Steamship Company, under section 33 of the Merchant Marine Act, 46 U.S. C.A. § 688. The Steamship Company appealing assigns as error a refusal to instruct the jury to find for the defendant and the refusal to give certain requested charges...

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