District Court, E.D. New York May 3, 1962, No. 61 Civ. 754 (Blount v. Peerless Chemicals (P.R.) Inc.)

DOOLING, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are longshoremen, who live in Maryland; they allege that while they were working on the S. S. Frances in Baltimore harbor on March 28, 1961 they were injured by noxious fumes that emanated without warning from fifteen cylinders that “the defendants” had sent from Puerto Rico to Baltimore aboard the S. S.