McCHRISTIAN v. LYKES BROS. S. S. CO.

No. 894.

94 F.Supp. 149 (1950)

McCHRISTIAN v. LYKES BROS. S. S. CO., Inc.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

October 12, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Combs, Brown & Brock, W. A. Combs, of Houston, Tex., for libellant.

Royston & Rayzor, Robert Eikel, of Houston, Tex., for respondent.

Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman & Bates, Eugene Cavin, of Houston, Tex., for intervenor, Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n.


KENNERLY, Chief Judge.

On June 2, 1949, libellant Ernest McChristian, a longshoreman, filed this suit in admiralty for damages against respondent Lykes Brothers Steamship Company, Incorporated, owner of the Steamship Cape Kildare. He alleges that he was on or about January 2, 1947, a longshoreman in the employ of the Southern Stevedoring Company, and while engaged in loading such steamship was, because of the negligence of respondent, injured and that he suffered...

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