SOCONY-VACUUM OIL CO. v. ADERHOLD

No. A-2790.

240 S.W.2d 751 (1951)

SOCONY-VACUUM OIL CO., Inc. v. ADERHOLD.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 20, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Royston & Rayzor and Robert Eikel, all of Houston, for petitioner.

Mandell & Wright, Houston, for respondent.


WILSON, Justice.

The parties will be referred to according to their position in the trial court.

Plaintiff, formerly a seaman on defendant's tanker, the SS SOCONA, filed two causes of action in this suit: first, for maintenance and cure; and, second, for damages caused by a fall from a shelf on the shelter deck. He contends that the shelf was an unsafe place to work; that it was negligence to send him upon this shelf with the ship rolling; that it was negligence...

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