JORDAN v. STATES MARINE CORPORATION OF DELAWARE

No. 15830.

257 F.2d 232 (1958)

Martha JORDAN, Appellant, v. STATES MARINE CORPORATION OF DELAWARE, a Corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

July 15, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peterson, Pozzi & Lent, Donald Wilson, Portland, Or., for appellant.

White, Sutherland & White, William F. White, Portland, Or., Graham, James & Rolph, Henry R. Rolph, Francis L. Tetreault, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, POPE and FEE, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

Mrs. Jordan, a citizen of Oregon, appeals from a summary judgment dismissing before trial her complaint in a diversity suit against appellee, a Delaware ship-owning corporation, hereafter States Marine. Her complaint seeks recovery for loss of consortium and sexual intercourse resulting from the injury to her sailor husband caused by the States Marine's negligence on the high seas on a voyage from California to Japan while he was a seaman employed...

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