E. N. BISSO AND SON v. MILLER

No. 15899.

233 F.2d 855 (1956)

E. N. BISSO and SON, a Louisiana Partnership composed of E. N. Bisso and J. A. Bisso, II, and E. N. Bisso and J. A. Bisso, II, Appellants, v. Jules MILLER, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 18, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George B. Matthews, New Orleans, La., Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellants.

Edward M. Heller, T. C. W. Ellis, New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before RIVES, TUTTLE and JONES, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by appellee under the Jones Act1 to recover damages for injuries sustained by him on July 12, 1953, while employed by appellant as a seaman on its tug, Napoleon, at New Orleans, Louisiana. The complaint alleged that appellee suffered a broken hip and resulting complications from appellants' negligent failure to furnish him a reasonably safe place to...

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