Kulczyk v. Rockport S. S. Co.

TUTTLE, District Judge.

This action at law, in which the jurisdiction of this court is properly invoked on the ground of diversity of citizenship, was brought by Stanley Kulczyk, a seaman, to recover from the Roekport Steamship Company, a nonresident corporation, damages for injuries alleged by the plaintiff to have been^,caused him by the negligence of the defendant, in the course of his employment by the defendant as a member of the crew of the steamship John A. Kling, while he was standing on a dock on the Maumee river, in Toledo, Ohio, engaged in shifting certain cables in an effort to…