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SYLVE v. E. W. GRAVOLET CANNING COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 15918.

278 F.Supp. 669 (1967)

Clay SYLVE, Plaintiff, v. E. W. GRAVOLET CANNING COMPANY, Inc., Defendant.

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

October 23, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. McLaughlin, Orlando G. Bendana, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Eldon T. Harvey, III, H. Barton Williams, New Orleans, La., for defendant.

CASSIBRY, District Judge.

This is a suit for damages based on unseaworthiness under the general maritime law, negligence under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688 et seq., and maintenance and cure. The action arose out of an explosion and flash fire aboard the oyster boat Marguerite A while it was moored to a dock in the Gravolet Canal in Pointe-a-la-Hache, Louisiana, on the morning of May 11, 1965. The defendant...

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