Melleck v. Oliver J. Olson and Co.

MATHES, District Judge.

This cause having come before the Court for hearing upon defendant’s alternative motions filed January 16, 1957, either to dismiss or to transfer to the admiralty docket the second and third claims or causes of action; and the motions having been argued and submitted for decision; and it appearing to the Court that:(1) this action is brought as an original action “at law” in this Court with “demand for jury trial”; the first cause of action asserted in the complaint is a claim under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, by plaintiff, as seaman, against defendant, as…