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HUSSEIN v. ISTHMIAN LINES, INC.

No. 23862.

405 F.2d 946 (1968)

Abdo Tehr HUSSEIN, Appellant, v. ISTHMIAN LINES, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 30, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Summers, III, Clifton S. Carl, Garrett & Carl, New Orleans, La., complainant-appellant.

Paul A. Nalty, New Orleans, La., for Isthmian Line, Inc.; Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, La., of counsel.

Before GEWIN and BELL, Circuit Judges, and BOOTLE, District Judge.

BOOTLE, District Judge:

While employed as wiper aboard the appellee's ship, the SS Steel Seafarer, the appellant, Abdo Tehr Hussein, was allegedly injured by falling from a ladder in the engine room. At the time of the fall, appellant was engaged in the task of carrying slag up from the engine room in a bucket to be discharged over the side of the ship. Suit was brought against Isthmian Lines by appellant under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. section 688, and the general...

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