GARDNER v. NATIONAL BULK CARRIERS, INC.

No. 8022.

190 F.Supp. 143 (1960)

Mrs. Valerie Jean GARDNER, as Administratrix of the Estate of Robert Edward Gardner, Jr., deceased, Libellant, v. NATIONAL BULK CARRIERS, INC., in personam, and the THE SS BULKCRUDE, in rem, Respondents.

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

December 29, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Jett, Sykes & Coupland, R. Arthur Jett, Norfolk, Va., for respondents.


WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

In this action under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, libellant seeks a recovery for the death of her husband, a member of the crew of The SS Bulkcrude, on December 8, 1958, while the vessel was southbound off the Florida Keys enroute from New York to Corpus Christi, Texas.

On the morning of December 8, the decedent, Gardner, complained to the master that he felt "shaky", whereupon he was given some medicine. He was...

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