Edna Fall, as Administratrix of the Estate of Phillip Fall, Deceased v. Esso Standard Oil Company

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• “We feel compelled to hold that the general maritime law, unaided by the Jones Act, anomalously, archaically, unnecessarily in terms of general principles, gives Fall’s widow and administratrix no right of action.”
• “A useful tool may be a dangerous weapon.”

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