Legal Opinion
Tsitsinakis v. Simpson, Spence & Young
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 24, 1950PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.
The defendants have moved this Court for an order declining jurisdiction and dismissing the action on the ground of forum non conveniens. .
The action is brought under three counts: the first under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, for injuries sustained; the second for maintenance and cure, and the third for negligence under the laws of Greece.
The plaintiff, a citizen and resident of Greece, sustained injuries on May 27, 1949, while working aboard the ship S. S. Aghios Nicholaos as it lay in the port of Kamaishi, Japan, and as a result was hospitalized in…
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