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GUTHRIE v. SINCLAIR REFINING COMPANY

No. 13294.

320 S.W.2d 396 (1959)

Eugene D. GUTHRIE, Appellant, v. SINCLAIR REFINING COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston.

Rehearing Denied February 5, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mandell & Wright, Houston, Ben N. Ramey, Houston, of counsel, for appellant.

B. D. McKinney, Frank G. Harmon, Houston, Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd, Houston, of counsel, for appellees.

WERLEIN, Justice.

Appellant, Eugene D. Guthrie, third engineer of the SS MacDonald, brought this suit under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688 and for unseaworthiness against appellee, Sinclair Refining Company, to recover for personal injuries sustained by him about 2 o'clock a. m., July 26, 1955, when he stepped on a short length of line which lay on a lower deck level to which he had descended from the operating platform for the purpose of replacing a light...

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