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WILKINS v. AMERICAN EXPORT ISBRANDTSEN LINES, INC.

No. 764, Docket 35391.

446 F.2d 480 (1971)

Margaret Ann WILKINS, as Administratrix of the Estate of William Lane Wilkins, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN EXPORT ISBRANDTSEN LINES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 18, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert Lebovici, New York City (Kenneth Heller, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas H. Healey, New York City (Foley, Grainger & Darby, Walter A. Darby, Jr., Daniel L. Stonebridge, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before HAYS and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges, and BLUMENFELD, District Judge.

BLUMENFELD, District Judge:

Plaintiff brought this action as administratrix of the Estate of William Lane Wilkins, an officer in the merchant marine, against his employer, the owner of the ship on which he was serving, to recover damages for his death, which resulted from a heart attack suffered at sea. We are constrained to remand for a new trial because of error in the exclusion of evidence relevant to the issue of proximate cause.

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