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HEATH v. MATSON NAVIGATION COMPANY

Civ. No. 70-3134.

333 F.Supp. 131 (1971)

William K. HEATH, Plaintiff, v. MATSON NAVIGATION COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Hawaii.

September 24, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul F. Cronin, Gerald Y. Sekiya, Bortz, Case, Stack, Kay, Cronin & Clause, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiff.

C. F. Damon, Jr., Damon, Shigekane, & Char, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant.

MEMORANDUM DECISION

PENCE, Chief Judge.

On Thanksgiving night, November 27, 1969, at approximately nine p.m. and while at sea, plaintiff William K. Heath, an able-bodied seaman aboard the S. S. Hawaiian Merchant, while walking up the port, forward side of the ship to assume his duties as bow lookout, fell over a fire hose which had been left out on the main weather deck. As a result of his fall Heath sustained...

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