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SADLER v. PENNSYLVANIA R. CO.

No. 5544.

159 F.2d 784 (1947)

SADLER v. PENNSYLVANIA R. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

February 14, 1947.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. M. Minter, of Mathews, Va., and R. Arthur Jett, of Norfolk, Va., for appellant.

Thomas H. Willcox, of Norfolk, Va. (Willcox, Cooke & Willcox, of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, SOPER, and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, to recover damages for wrongful death. There was verdict and judgment for defendant and plaintiff has appealed. The decedent, William Carroll Sadler, was a cook on a barge of the defendant Pennsylvania Railroad Company and was drowned in the night time while the barge was tied up at the dock alongside another barge of the same defendant. Negligence was alleged in the mooring, lighting...

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