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METZGER v. S. S. KIRSTEN TORM

Adm. No. 4419.

245 F.Supp. 227 (1965)

Dorothy J. METZGER, surviving wife of William Frederick Metzger, deceased, individually and for the use of Ronald Lee Metzger and Howard Bruce Metzger, surviving infant children of William Frederick Metzger, deceased v. S. S. KIRSTEN TORM, her engines, tackle, apparel and furniture, and Torm Line.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

Supplemental Opinion September 24, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Ginsberg and Eugene V. Chircus, Baltimore, Md., for libelant.

David R. Owen and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Md., for respondent.

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

This is a suit in admiralty to recover damages for the death of a longshoreman, who was killed while working on board the S.S. Kirsten Torm, while it was moored to a pier in Baltimore Harbor.1 The issues require construction of the Maryland "Lord Campbell's Act", Anno.Code of Md., 1957 ed., Art. 67, secs. 1-6, with respect to liability thereunder for unseaworthiness and negligence, the persons who may recover, and...

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