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PRESLEY v. UPPER MISSISSIPPI TOWING CORPORATION

No. 5436.

141 So.2d 411 (1961)

Mrs. Corine PRESLEY, Administratrix of the Succession of Barney W. Presley, Jr., v. UPPER MISSISSIPPI TOWING CORPORATION.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 18, 1961.

On Second Rehearing May 16, 1962.

Certiorari Denied June 20, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Maurice J. Wilson, Boris F. Navratil, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee and appellant.

Laycock & Stewart, Ashton Stewart, Baton Rouge, Lancaster & Baxter, Talluhah, for plaintiff-appellant and appellee.

Before LOTTINGER, LANDRY and REID, JJ.

LANDRY, Judge.

This is a suit under the Jones Act (46 U.S.C.A. § 688) by the mother of an unmarried man seeking to recover damages in the sum of $100,000 for the death of her seaman son drowned in the Mississippi River during the course of his employment on the tugboat "Harriet Ann", owned by defendant, Upper Mississippi Towing Corporation.

Trial of this cause before a jury in the Honorable Nineteenth Judicial District Court, East Baton Rouge Parish,...

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