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CLAUSSEN v. MENE GRANDE OIL COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 1841.

163 F.Supp. 779 (1958)

Jens CLAUSSEN, Plaintiff, v. MENE GRANDE OIL COMPANY, C. A., a Venezuelan corporation, and Mene Grande Oil Company, a Delaware corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

June 5, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Bader, of Balick & Bader, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff, Harvey Goldstein, New York City, of counsel.

David B. Coxe, Jr., Wilmington, Del., for defendants, Mene Grande Oil Co., Frederick L. Scofield, New York City, of counsel.

LAYTON, District Judge.

This suit was filed under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, on November 5, 1957, some ten years after the injuries complained of. The statute of limitations is interposed as a defense. In order to understand the contentions, the chronological history of the relevant occurrences is given in some detail. On September 18, 1947, the plaintiff fell from an allegedly defective gangplank while trying to board his ship in Mobile, Alabama, during...

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