Dingee v. Maryland

How courts have described this case

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• section of graded deck of offshore platform which gave way beneath plaintiff’s feet and plummeted into the Gulf of Mexico constituted “ruin”
• counsel had reasonable basis for not calling attention to error in charge on voluntary manslaughter where strategy was to present choice between conviction and acquittal on self-defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).