PINION v. MISSISSIPPI SHIPPING COMPANY

No. 2990 Admiralty.

156 F.Supp. 652 (1957)

Robert Lee PINION, Libellant, v. MISSISSIPPI SHIPPING COMPANY, Inc., Respondent.

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

October 31, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond H. Kierr, Samuel C. Gainsburgh, New Orleans, La., for libellant.

Terriberry, Young, Rault & Carroll, William E. Wright, New Orleans, La., for Mississippi Shipping Co., Inc.

Bienvenu & Culver, P. A. Bienvenu, New Orleans, La., for Charles Ferran & Co., Inc.


J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

Alleging unseaworthiness, libellant, an employee of an independent ship repair contractor, seeks to recover from the respondent ship owner for injuries sustained by him in a fall from a scaffold while repairing a salt water pipeline aboard the SS Del Mar. Respondent makes the defense of laches and, alternatively, denies unseaworthiness as well as the application of the doctrine of liability without fault as to a ship repair man. Under...

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