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TOMPKINS v. PILOTS ASS'N FOR BAY AND RIVER DELAWARE

No. 20046.

32 F.Supp. 439 (1940)

TOMPKINS v. PILOTS ASS'N FOR BAY AND RIVER DELAWARE et al.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 5, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Freedman & Goldstein, by Abraham E. Freedman and Milton M. Borowsky, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Lewis, Wolff, Gourlay & Hemphill, by Frederick W. Gourlay, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

This is a suit at law, brought under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, by the administratrix of a seaman, for the benefit of his widow and three-year-old child. The deceased, Roger Littleton, fell through an open gangway from the pilot boat upon which he was employed and was drowned. The defendants are the owners of the pilot boat.

At the first trial of the case, the Court instructed...

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