VICKERS v. TUMEY

No. 18312.

290 F.2d 426 (1961)

James E. VICKERS, d/b/a Delta Towing Company, v. Floyd W. TUMEY.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 12, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. C. Keady, Greenville, Miss., George B. Matthews, New Orleans, La., Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, La., Farish, Keady & Campbell, Greenville, Miss., of counsel, for appellant.

Philip Mansour, Greenville, Miss., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

The vessel owner appeals from a judgment entered in part on a jury verdict for damages and on separate findings of the Judge for maintenance, wages and cure occasioned by injuries sustained on the River Towboat Nita Dean. The errors urged are the failure of the Trial Court to direct a verdict for want of sufficient evidence of negligence or unseaworthiness, three errors in the Court's charge, and the allowance by the Judge of wages, as...

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