Blodow v. Pan Pacific Fisheries, Inc.

MOSK, J. pro tem.*

Appellant-plaintiff seeks reversal of an adverse judgment in an action brought in state court pursuant to provisions of the Jones Act (46 U.S.C.A. § 688).

The appellant’s first cause of action alleged that respondent employers failed to exercise ordinary care to provide him with a reasonably safe place to work in that they negligently caused and allowed an accumulation of a slick and oily foreign substance to be and to remain upon the surface of a hatch cover on the seagoing vessel involved herein, creating dangerous and insecure footing for appellant who was required to walk…