Wounick v. Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co.

ROSENBERG, District Judge.

This case came for retrial to the court in Admiralty upon its remand by the United States Court of Appeals for the *68Third Circuit. Wounick v. Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company, 283 F.2d 325 (1960).

The case was originally tried on the 20th day of April, 1959, in an action brought by the plaintiff in the District Court under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, on three counts: one, for negligence; two, for unseaworthiness; and three, for maintenance and cure. Because the complaint was filed thirteen days after the statute of limitations had run under the Jones Act, at…