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McKEE v. MERRITT-CHAPMAN & SCOTT CORP.

No. 56C1197.

144 F.Supp. 423 (1956)

Muriel J. McKEE, Administrator of the Estate of Paul D. McKee, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. MERRITT-CHAPMAN & SCOTT CORP., a corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

September 19, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Augustine J. Bowe, Leon M. Despres, of Bowe & Bowe, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Edward B. Hayes, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.

SULLIVAN, District Judge.

This complaint, which was originally filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, seeks to recover under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688 for the death of plaintiff's intestate. Deceased was an employee of defendant, and was killed when a barge owned by defendant, on which he was working as a seaman, sank in Lake Michigan. Defendant, a Delaware corporation, removed the case to this court on...

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