CALLENDAR v. EMPLOYERS LIABILITY ASSURANCE CORP.

Civ. A. No. 15652.

283 F.Supp. 213 (1967)

Clyde E. CALLENDAR v. EMPLOYERS LIABILITY ASSURANCE CORP., Ltd. and Reading and Bates Offshore Drilling Co.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

November 29, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. C. Edwins, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiff.

J. Y. Gilmore, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

COMISKEY, District Judge.

Clyde E. Callendar seeks damages for negligence under the Jones Act, unseaworthiness, and maintenance and cure against his employer, Reading and Bates Offshore Drilling Co.

On May 21, 1964, the plaintiff was working as a derrick man on the defendant's vessel, C. P. BAKER, doing offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. As derrickman, plaintiff was at a station on the vessel about eighty-five feet in...

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