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KING v. NICHOLSON TRANSIT CO.

Docket No. 27, Calendar No. 44,968.

329 Mich. 586 (1951)

46 N.W.2d 389

KING v. NICHOLSON TRANSIT COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Rehearing denied June 4, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Buell A. Doelle, for plaintiff.

Sparkman D. Foster and Foster, Lutz & Meadows (Allan B. Lutz and Raymond A. Ballard, of counsel), for defendant.

SHARPE, J.

This is an action brought by virtue of the merchant seamen's act of June 5, 1920, ch 250, § 33 (41 Stat 1007, 46 USCA, § 688), known as the Jones act, against defendant, Nicholson Transit Company, owner of the steamship James Watt, for the death of Thomas C. Carroll on December 31, 1945.

On the above date the steamship was in dry dock at River Rouge. After the ship entered the dry dock, the Great...

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