LEE v. PURE OIL COMPANY

No. 12056.

218 F.2d 711 (1955)

Louise LEE, Appellant, v. PURE OIL COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

January 31, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. A. McTighe, Memphis, Tenn. (Nicholson, McTighe, Webb & Cleaves, Memphis, Tenn., on the brief), for appellant.

Edward B. Hayes, Chicago, Ill. (William B. Miller, Jr., Lord, Bissell & Kadyk, Chicago, Ill., Burch, Porter & Johnson, Memphis, Tenn., on the brief), for appellee.

Before ALLEN, MILLER, and STEWART, Circuit Judges.


STEWART, Circuit Judge.

Appellant brought this action in the district court for damages resulting from the death of her husband. He was drowned in the Mississippi River after falling from a barge owned by appellee, which was moored near the appellee's docks in Memphis.

The deceased was employed by a Memphis bakery as a delivery truck driver and bread salesman. On the morning of his death, he called at a Memphis grocery to deliver bread. As a part of its business...

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