JONES v. ATLANTIC REFINING CO.

No. 3309.

55 F.Supp. 17 (1944)

JONES v. ATLANTIC REFINING CO.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

April 28, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Freedman & Goldstein and Abraham E. Freedman, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Lewis, Wolff & Gourlay, Otto Wolff, Jr., and Howard H. Yocum, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


WYCHE, District Judge (sitting by designation).

Plaintiff, an American seaman, instituted this suit, under the Jones Act, 38 Stat. 1185, 41 Stat. 1007, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, to recover damages for certain personal injuries which he sustained in the course of his employment.

He was a member of the crew, as an oiler, on the defendant's steamship "E. H. Blum" which departed from Philadelphia southbound on February 15, 1942, under wartime regulations. The following...

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