DIMOCK, District Judge.
Appellant Simpson sued to recover damages for injuries sustained in falling from the athwartships stairs on appellee's ship the Esso Wilmington, on October 27, 1948. The action was based on negligence under the Jones Act, 46 U. S.C. § 688. The case below was grounded almost exclusively upon the theory that appellee negligently suffered the stairs to be covered with sougee water and that the water made the stairs slippery with the result...
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