DEARING v. EMPLOYERS GROUP INSURANCE COMPANY

No. 2188.

186 So.2d 392 (1966)

James T. DEARING v. The EMPLOYERS GROUP INSURANCE COMPANY and Reading and Bates Offshore Drilling Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

May 2, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Neal & Waitz, Philip E. Henderson, Houma, for plaintiff-appellant.

Faris, Ellis, Cutrone, Gilmore & Lautenschlaeger, T. C. W. Ellis, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

Before McBRIDE, REGAN and HALL, JJ.


REGAN, Judge.

The plaintiff, James T. Dearing, filed this suit against the defendants, Reading and Bates Offshore Drilling Company and the Employers Group Insurance Company, its liability insurer, pursuant to the Jones Act1 and the warranty of seaworthiness emanating from the general maritime law, in an endeavor to recover the sum of $200,000.00 representing personal injuries incurred as a result of a fall aboard the defendant's vessel...

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