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DIXON v. UNITED STATES

120 F.Supp. 747 (1954)

DIXON v. UNITED STATES.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

March 23, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob Rassner, New York City, for libelant.

J. Edward Lumbard, U. S. Atty., New York City (Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, Raymond Parmer and Vernon Sims Jones, New York City, of counsel), for respondent.

WEINFELD, District Judge.

Libelant Dixon, former chief mate of the S.S. Halton R. Carey, seeks recovery for severe and permanent injuries sustained by him aboard the vessel when several top rungs of a ladder on which he was descending gave way and he fell a distance of more than 20 feet to the deck of a lower hold. The respondent concedes the ladder was defective and in an unsafe condition at the time of the accident. But it resists liability for unseaworthiness

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