MURPHY v. GULF OIL CORPORATION

No. 2935.

55 F.Supp. 962 (1944)

MURPHY v. GULF OIL CORPORATION.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 23, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham E. Freedman (of Freedman & Goldstein), of Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Rowland C. Evans, Jr. (of Krusen, Evans & Shaw), of Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


BARD, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a merchant seaman, instituted a civil action to recover damages for injuries which he sustained during the performance of his duties aboard a ship owned and operated by the defendant. The ship was travelling in convoy under rigid blackout regulations, and plaintiff fell from the midship deck to the shelter deck as a result of mistaking, in the darkness, an unguarded doorway for a passageway.

The complaint contained three counts...

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