HAWN v. AMERICAN S. S. CO.


27 F.Supp. 410 (1939)

HAWN v. AMERICAN S. S. CO.

District Court, W. D. New York.

April 10, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Drury, Jr., of Buffalo, N. Y., for plaintiff.

Laurence E. Coffey, of Buffalo, N. Y., for defendant.


BURKE, District Judge.

This action is brought under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688. Plaintiff is a seaman by occupation and when employed in his occupation usually works as a wheelsman. In November 1938, he with several other seamen was employed by the defendant to aid in shifting the vessel "Adam E. Cornelius, Jr." back and forth along the dock where she was taking on a cargo of soy beans from a grain elevator for winter storage. The vessel was in ordinary...

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