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SWEENEY v. AMERICAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY

No. 73-1236.

491 F.2d 1085 (1974)

Mae Eleanor SWEENEY, Administratrix of the Estate of Lawrence Robert Sweeney, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. AMERICAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 5, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Busch, New York City, for defendant-appellant; Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City, Marshall, Melhorn, Bloch & Belt, Toledo, Ohio, on brief; (John A. Sullivan, New York City, Arnold F. Bunge, Jr., Toledo, Ohio, of counsel).

Merritt W. Green, II, Green & Lackey, Toledo, Ohio, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before EDWARDS and PECK, Circuit Judges, and CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.

JOHN W. PECK, Circuit Judge.

The American Steamship Company, defendant-appellant, perfected an appeal in this admiralty case from a judgment entered against it in the amount of $83,-209.22 for the death of an employee seaman. The basic facts are not in dispute.

Appellant owns and operates the U.S. Gypsum, a Great Lakes steamer, which in 1970 operated out of the Port of Toledo, Ohio, Lawrence R. Sweeney, plaintiff-appellee's decedent, an experienced seaman...

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