District Court, N.D. Illinois September 19, 1956, No. 56C1197 (McKee v. Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.)

SULLIVAN, District Judge.

This complaint, which was originally filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, seeks to recover under the Jones Act, 46 *424U.S.C.A. § 688 for the death of plaintiff’s intestate. Deceased was an employee of defendant, and was killed when a barge owned by defendant, on which he was working as a seaman, sank in Lake Michigan.