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KENT v. SHELL OIL COMPANY

No. 18181.

286 F.2d 746 (1961)

Benjamin F. KENT and Employers Casualty Co., Appellants, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY and the Texas Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 7, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel C. Gainsburgh, Raymond H. Kierr, Leonard B. Levy, New Orleans, La., Dufour, St. Paul, Levy & Marx, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellants.

Ernest A. Carrere, Jr., New Orleans, La., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellees.

Before CAMERON, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

This is a variation in a minor key of the recurring theme on the rights of maritime workers or those working, ashore or afloat, around maritime enterprises. At times the problem takes the cast of whether the person injured is a seaman entitling him to sue his employer under the Jones Act or the General Mari-time Law for Unseaworthiness rather than recover workmen's compensation under either the State or Federal Acts.

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