SCHLICHTER v. PORT ARTHUR TOWING COMPANY

No. 18505.

288 F.2d 801 (1961)

Mrs. Clifford Raymond SCHLICHTER, v. PORT ARTHUR TOWING COMPANY.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 5, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Drury, Frank J. Varela, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

George W. Healy, III, New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and CARSWELL, District Judge.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question whether the District Court was correct in granting an instructed verdict in favor of a defendant vessel owner in a Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, claim for damages due to the negligent death of a seaman. We affirm.

The vessel is the small river pusher type towboat Ann Lee. She is 55 feet in length. Her stern is square with a wooden grating type decking over the extreme after end. This raised...

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