SIMMONS v. GULF AND SOUTH AMERICAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY

No. 5845.

260 F.Supp. 525 (1966)

Edward Cabon SIMMONS, Libelant, v. GULF AND SOUTH AMERICAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Inc., Respondent.

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

September 28, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edgar N. Quillin, Arabi, La., John Sidney Brown, Charles A. Arceneaux, New Orleans, La., for libelant.

Terriberry, Rault, Carroll, Yancey & Farrell, Maurie D. Yager, William E. Wright, New Orleans, La., for respondent.

Lemle & Kelleher, Charles Kohlmeyer, Jr., Thomas W. Thorne, Jr., New Orleans, La., for respondent-impleaded and intervenor.


IN ADMIRALTY

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:*

This libel in personam was filed by Edward Cabon Simmons against Gulf and South American Steamship Company, Inc., for damages growing out of personal injuries sustained by Simmons on November 15, 1961. Simmons, a longshoreman employed by T. Smith and Son, Inc., was working aboard respondent's (Gulf) vessel, the GULF TRADER, docked in the Port of New Orleans.

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