CLEVENGER v. STAR FISH & OYSTER COMPANY

No. 20232.

325 F.2d 397 (1963)

Floyd Wesley CLEVENGER, Appellant, v. STAR FISH & OYSTER COMPANY, Inc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 6, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edgar N. Quillin, Arabi, La., Maury Friedlander, Mobile, Ala., for appellant.

Thomas M. Galloway, Mobile, Ala., for appellee, Collins, Galloway & Murphy, Mobile, Ala., of counsel.

Before CAMERON, WISDOM and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

Floyd Clevenger, the libellant, was a fisherman and deck hand on the Star Queen, a small fishing vessel owned by the respondent, the Star Fish & Oyster Company, Inc. On the evening of July 14, 1961, after a three weeks voyage, the Star Queen put into its home port, Mobile, Alabama, and docked at the Star Fish dock. The following morning Clevenger, who had gone ashore the night before, returned to the ship about nine o'clock to help unload...

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