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BLOUNT v. PEERLESS CHEMICALS (P.R.) INC.

No. 61 Civ. 754.

216 F.Supp. 612 (1962)

Augustus BLOUNT et al., Plaintiffs, v. PEERLESS CHEMICALS (P.R.) INC., and Peerless Oil & Chemical Corp., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. New York.

May 3, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Urban S. Mulvehill, New York City, (Terhune, Gibbons & Mulvehill, New York City, of counsel), for defendant Peerless Chemicals (P.R.) Inc., in support of motion to vacate service of process.

George J. Engelman, New York City, for plaintiffs, opposed.

DOOLING, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are longshoremen, who live in Maryland; they allege that while they were working on the S. S. Frances in Baltimore harbor on March 28, 1961 they were injured by noxious fumes that emanated without warning from fifteen cylinders that "the defendants" had sent from Puerto Rico to Baltimore aboard the S. S. Frances under bills of lading that described the cylinders as "EMPTY CHLORINE CYLINDERS"; the claim is that the defendants were...

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