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FIELD v. WATERMAN S. S. CORPORATION

No. 9045.

104 F.2d 849 (1939)

FIELD v. WATERMAN S. S. CORPORATION.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 29, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Montgomery, Jr., of New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Gessner T. McCorvey, of Mobile, Ala., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and McCORD, Circuit Judges.

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

John Field, a seaman, brought this suit under the Jones Act, § 33, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, to recover for an injury received from a fall while working as an able-bodied seaman on a vessel owned by the Waterman Steamship Corporation.

The petition alleged that Field was ordered to paint the stern of the ship; "that while mounting the jacob ladder the step slipped and caused him to fall"; and that in falling he caught on a brace line...

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