SILAS v. PAROH STEAMSHIP COMPANY

Civ. A. Nos. 2463, 2452.

175 F.Supp. 35 (1958)

Lemel SILAS, Plaintiff, v. PAROH STEAMSHIP COMPANY (Paroh Steamship Corporation), Defendant. Louis L. BRIGHT, Plaintiff, v. WORLD CARRIERS, INC., Defendant.

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

November 18, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Seawell, Johnston, McCoy & Winston, Norfolk, Va., for defendant.


WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

In each of these cases instituted under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, default judgments have been entered in favor of the plaintiffs. Such process as was had was effected by service upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia pursuant to § 13-217, Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended1. The defendants, although admittedly having received the...

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