DARDAR v. LOUISIANA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS

No. 71-1624 Summary Calendar.

447 F.2d 952 (1971)

Urbain DARDAR, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LOUISIANA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS and Houston Fire & Casualty Insurance Co., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 10, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kendall L. Vick, Jesse S. Guillot, New Orleans, La., Philip K. Jones, Norman L. Sisson, Baton Rouge, La., for defendants-appellants.

Louis B. Merhige, William L. Crull, III, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before COLEMAN, SIMPSON and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Appealing from an adverse judgment below in an action tried without a jury under the Jones Act, Title 46, U. S.C., Section 688, and under general maritime law, holding them responsible in damages to the extent of $46,424.00 for negligence and for unseaworthiness of a car-ferry boat operated temporarily1 across Goose Bayou, near LaFitte, Louisiana, for injuries received February 25, 1968, by the plaintiff-appellee, Dardar, asserted...

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