FAIR v. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BARGE LINE CO.

Civ. A. No. 63-C-14.

239 F.Supp. 158 (1965)

Mrs. John A. FAIR, Administratrix of the Estate of John A. Fair, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BARGE LINE CO., Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Corpus Christi Division.

March 16, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mandell & Wright, Sidney Ravkind and John N. Barnhart, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff.

Kleberg, Mobley, Lockett & Weil, R. W. Woolsey, Corpus Christi, Tex., for defendant.


GARZA, District Judge.

This action was brought by the Plaintiff as surviving widow and Administratrix of the Estate of John A. Fair, Deceased, against the owner and operator of the cargo vessel M/S TRANS-GULF for damages under the Texas Survival Statute, Art. 5525, Vernon's Ann.Tex. Civ.St., and the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688. Liability is predicated on Defendant's negligence which caused, at least in part, the illness and eventual death of Plaintiff's decedent...

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