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Naomi Petty, Administratrix of the Estate of Faye R. Petty, Deceased v. Tennessee-Missouri Bridge Commission, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 1, 1958No. 15878_1PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-administratrix has appealed from final order dismissing her complaint for damages for wrongful death of her decedent. Plaintiff, as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, in her complaint asserted that her deceased husband, while employed as a seaman upon a ferry boat operated by the defendant across the Mississippi River between Tiptonville, Tennessee, and Portageville, Missouri, met his death when trapped in the pilot house of the ferry boat as it sank, as the result of a collision with another boat; that her husband’s death was caused…
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