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COWAN v. INLAND WATERWAYS CORP.

No. 2223.

121 F.Supp. 683 (1954)

COWAN v. INLAND WATERWAYS CORP. et al.

United States District Court E. D. Illinois.

March 13, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cohn & Cohn, E. St. Louis, Ill. (Joseph Cohn, E. St. Louis, Ill., of counsel), Douglas MacLeod, St. Louis, Mo., for libelant.

C. M. Raemer, U. S. Atty. for Eastern Dist. of Illinois, Salem, Ill., Ernest R. McHale, Asst. U. S. Atty., for Eastern Dist. of Illinois, E. St. Louis, Ill., for respondent.

WHAM, Chief Judge.

James S. Cowan, libelant herein, filed suit under the general maritime law pursuant to provisions of Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 741 et seq., for damages sustained as a result of personal injuries which he received while he was employed as a deckhand by the Inland Waterways Corporation, a wholly owned instrumentality of the United States, which said corporation operates vessels as a commercial carrier of freight on the navigable inland...

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