MYLES v. QUINN MENHADEN FISHERIES, INC.

No. 4068.

194 F.Supp. 197 (1961)

Isaac MYLES, Libelant, v. QUINN MENHADEN FISHERIES, INC., Respondent.

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

April 20, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brumfield & Organ, Donald V. Organ, Gene S. Palmisano, New Orleans, La., for libelant.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, George W. Healy, III, W. Eugene Davis, New Orleans, La., for respondent.

Dufour, St. Paul, Levy & Marx, Leonard B. Levy, New Orleans, La., for New Orleans and Lower Coast R. R. Co., respondent-impleaded.

Normann & Normann, David R. Normann, New Orleans, La., for Zurich Ins. Co., respondent-impleaded.


J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

Isaac Myles, an itinerant Menhaden fisherman, suffered the amputation of his two legs below the knees while asleep on a spur track of the New Orleans and Lower Coast Railroad Company serving the plant of the respondent, Quinn Menhaden Fisheries, Inc., near Triumph, Louisiana. Before falling asleep on the track,1 Myles apparently had been walking back to the bunkhouse on the property of the respondent or...

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