KAPATSOS v. M/V BARLBY

No. 6854.

238 F.Supp. 654 (1965)

Stelious KAPATSOS, Libelant, v. M/V BARLBY, Her Engines, Tackle, Apparel and Furniture, and Ropner Steamship Company, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

February 15, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith, Waltzer, Jones & Peebles, Jack Peebles, New Orleans, La., for libelant.

Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Hopkins, Robert B. Deane, New Orleans, La., for respondent.


No. 6854, Division D.

AINSWORTH, District Judge.

The question presented here is whether a foreign seaman may assert a claim in a federal court against his foreign employer while sailing on a foreign ship for alleged injuries sustained on board the vessel while in American territorial waters.

This libel, asserting causes of action under the Jones Act and the general maritime law, grows out of the alleged injury of a seaman, a citizen of Greece, which...

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