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KEEL v. GREENVILLE MID-STREAM SERVICE, INC. & M/V ARK CITY

No. 19637.

321 F.2d 903 (1963)

Omer E. KEEL, Appellant, v. GREENVILLE MID-STREAM SERVICE, INC. and the M/V ARK CITY, her engines, tackle, etc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 8, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight Roberts, Kansas City, Mo., Douglas C. Wynn, Greenville, Miss., Homer R. Hines, Kansas City, Mo., for appellant.

W. C. Keady, Fred C. DeLong, Jr., Greenville, Miss., Charles E. Lugenbuhl, New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, WISDOM and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

The libelant, Omer Keel, an experienced riverhand, went to work as a deckhand on the towboat, Ark City, in July 1959. The Ark City was a new vessel. The crew consisted of Keel and a pilot or "captain". August 19, 1959, while Keel was cleaning the starboard side of the vessel with soap and water, the captain told Keel to make coffee. He got the coffeepot and two cups from the pilot house and stepped onto the starboard landing. It was slick from soap and...

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