Jones v. Waterman S. S. Corp.

GANEY, District Judge.

This is an action for maintenance and cure.

The plaintiff, David E. Jones, was a seaman on the S. S. Beauregard, and after leaving the ship, proceeded toward the street on the pier of the Reading Company on which all the lights had been extinguished and he fell into an open ditch sustaining multiple injuries.

The plaintiff instituted a civil action, No. 1480, against the Reading Company, the third party defendant herein and at the same time instituted a civil action against Waterman Steamship Corporation for wages, maintenance and cure. The suit against the Reading Company…