Legal Opinion
Meikle v. Leeds Shipping Co.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided June 19, 1957No. 561PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOFFMAN, District Judge.
This action was instituted in the Circuit Court for the City of Newport News by the infant plaintiff, a citizen of Great Britain, suing by his next friend, against Leeds Shipping Company, Ltd., and Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons, Ltd., both foreign corporations, to recover damages for personal injuries and loss of earnings alleged to have been sustained while plaintiff was attempting to descend a ladder from the defendants’ steamship Eastern City to a dock at the Chesapeake & Ohio piers at Newport News, Virginia. The plaintiff allegedly fell, striking a “bumper log”…
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