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DAVIS v. MATSON NAVIGATION COMPANY

No. 27201.

143 F.Supp. 537 (1956)

James J. DAVIS, Libelant, v. MATSON NAVIGATION COMPANY, a corporation, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

August 3, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll, Davis & Burdick, San Francisco, Cal., for libelant.

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal., for respondent.

OLIVER J. CARTER, District Judge.

Libelant is a longshoreman who brought suit in a state court for damages while working on board a vessel owned and operated by respondent. The suit filed in the state court was a complaint in personam in two counts, one based upon negligence and the other upon the unseaworthiness of the vessel. The defendant in the state action removed the case to the admiralty side of this Court, on the ground that the portions of the complaint...

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