BRINKMAN v. OIL TRANSFER CORP.


300 N.Y. 48 (1949)

Wallace L. Brinkman, an Infant, by Isabel Brinkman, His Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, v. Oil Transfer Corporation, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 23, 1949


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. B. M. O'Kelley and Hervey C. Allen, Jr., for appellant.

Edward J. Keane for respondent.

LOUGHRAN, Ch. J., LEWIS, CONWAY, DYE, FULD and BROMLEY, JJ., concur.


DESMOND, J.

Plaintiff, then sixteen years old, was, while employed as a seaman on defendant's tug and tow proceeding through the New York Barge Canal, so seriously injured that his leg had to be amputated a few hours after the accident. The young man's father was master of the tug at the time, and his father and mother arranged for urgently required surgical and hospital...

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