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CAUDILL v. VICTORY CARRIERS

No. 7717.

149 F.Supp. 11 (1957)

Frank CAUDILL, Jr., Libellant, v. VICTORY CARRIERS, Incorporated, a corporation, and THE S.S. LEWIS EMERY, JR., her boilers, etc., Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

As Amended May 14, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney H. Kelsey, Norfolk, Va., Stanley J. Bangel, Portsmouth, Va., for libellant.

Seawell, Johnston, McCoy & Winston, Norfolk, Va., Leon T. Seawell, Jr., and Harry E. McCoy, Norfolk, Va., for respondents.

HOFFMAN, District Judge.

This is an action in admiralty instituted by libellant, Frank Caudill, Jr., against the S.S. Lewis Emery, Jr., in rem, and Victory Carriers, Incorporated, in personam, for injuries received by libellant at Whittier, Alaska, while descending a Jacob's ladder leading from the deck of the Lewis Emery to a barge-derrick designated as B.D. 3031, when the ladder parted and libellant fell approximately 25 feet to the steel deck of the barge or floating...

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