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REETZ v. KINSMAN MARINE TRANSIT CO.

Docket No. 63857.

416 Mich. 97 (1982)

330 N.W.2d 638

REETZ v. KINSMAN MARINE TRANSIT COMPANY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 23, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Leonard C. Jaques, P.C. (by Leonard C. Jaques), for the plaintiff.

Foster, Meadows & Ballard (by John Arthur Hamilton) and Miller & Stillman (by Creighton E. Miller) for the defendant.

PER CURIAM:

Richard L. Reetz commenced this action against Kinsman Marine Transit Company to recover for injuries he sustained in September, 1974, while employed as a deckhand aboard Kinsman's vessel the Merle McCurdy. At that time, while engaged in a procedure to open the hatches on the vessel, Reetz fell backwards into an open hatch and plummeted approximately 40 feet to the steel deck below.

Reetz alleged under the Jones Act, 46 USC 688, that his...

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