WHITEMAN v. PITRIE

No. 15266.

220 F.2d 914 (1955)

George W. WHITEMAN, Appellant, v. Elsoyd PITRIE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 22, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B. Wheeler, McClendon & Wheeler, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Amos L. Ponder, Jr., New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and TUTTLE, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Appellee, plaintiff below, complained that while he was working for appellant, defendant below, as a deckhand on a tug engaged in shifting barges, he sustained a broken arm as a result of negligence of the defendant and of defendant's failure to furnish him a safe place in which to work. Inland Waterways Corporation was the owner of the barge on which plaintiff was injured.

Three suits were filed on account of the accident. The first...

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