Legal Opinion
Campbell v. American Foreign SS Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 13, 1941No. 149, 150PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff was employed as officers’ messman on a vessel of the defendant. On March 19, 1939, in the course of his duties, he sustained a fall which resulted in injuries to his head that developed into a neurosis. Alleging that the fall was caused by the defendant’s negligence, he brought suit under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, and added a second count for cure and maintenance. The case came to trial in February 1940; it resulted in the jury returning a verdict for the defendant on the negligence count and for the plaintiff, in the sum of $5,500, on the court for…
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3Cited by62 opinions
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