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HILL v. ATLANTIC NAVIGATION COMPANY

No. 6918.

218 F.2d 654 (1955)

Ivory James HILL, Jr., Appellant, v. ATLANTIC NAVIGATION COMPANY, a corporation, Gulf Menhaden Company, Incorporated, a corporation, M/V Promised Land, her tackle, apparel, etc., and The Fish Meal Company, a corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 28, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney H. Kelsey, Norfolk, Va., for appellant.

Martin J. McHugh, New York City (Macklin, Speer, Hanan & McKernan, New York City, Hughes, Little & Seawell and Leon T. Seawell, Jr., Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

Ivory James Hill, Jr., the appellant in this case, was severely burned and permanently injured on November 23, 1952 in a fire on board the Promised Land, a Menhaden fishing vessel at a dock in Beaufort, North Carolina. He brought suit under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, against the owners and under the general admiralty law against the vessel. The case was tried by the District Judge without a jury who dismissed the case since he was...

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