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THOMPSON v. COASTAL OIL CO.

Civ. A. No. 1164-52.

119 F.Supp. 838 (1954)

THOMPSON v. COASTAL OIL CO.

United States District Court D. New Jersey.

March 11, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elmer C. Miller, By Silas Blake Axtell, John A. Gleason, New York City, for plaintiff.

Francis M. McInerney, Jersey City, By Michael E. Hanrahan, New York City, for defendant.

HARTSHORNE, District Judge.

Does a pot-pourri of homosexuality and attempted murder create an unseaworthy ship? Such is the primary issue here presented, the other, the validity of a seaman's release.

Plaintiff Thompson, a colored cook, long at sea, signed on the S. S. Rosina Marron, a tanker owned and operated by defendant. The vessel carried a complement of some forty men, including among them one Medina, a Cuban, as crew messman. Medina was definitely effeminate...

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