WALTER E. HOFFMAN, Chief Judge.
What effect does a final judgment of a Virginia state court of competent jurisdiction have on the rights of the plaintiff, who instituted his state court action alleging that he was a longshoreman and which action was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction and with prejudice, to now maintain a Jones Act suit in the federal court by alleging that he was a seaman?
On October 11, 1960, plaintiff filed an action in the state court claiming...
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