J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.
Plaintiff, a longshoreman, was injured when a rope sling parted, allowing several one-hundred-pound sacks of soybeans to fall on him, in the hold of the S. S. Hoosier State. States Marine Corporation, owner of the Hoosier State, has moved to dismiss on the ground that this action, though based on the general maritime law,
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