DELOME v. UNION BARGE LINE COMPANY

No. 31037.

444 F.2d 225 (1971)

C. J. Paul DELOME, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNION BARGE LINE COMPANY et al., Defendants-Third-Party Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross Appellees, v. PLATZER SHIPYARD, INC., Third-Party Defendant-Appellee-Cross Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied and Rehearing Denied July 19, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Rienstra, Jr., Beamont, Tex., for Union Barge Line Co.

Dewey J. Gonsoulin, Mehaffy, Weber, Keith & Gonsoulin, Beaumont, Tex., for cross-appellant, Platzer Shipyard, Inc.

Bill J. Sanders, Ned Johnson, Beaumont, Tex., Wayne Patterson, Port Arthur, Tex., Sanders & Sanders, Waldman & Smallwood, Beaumont, Tex., for appellee, C. J. Paul Delome.

Before O'SULLIVAN, THORNBERRY and DYER, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing Denied and Rehearing En Banc Denied July 19, 1971.

DYER, Circuit Judge.

Union Barge Line Company and Platzer Shipyard, Inc., appeal from the District Court's judgment for Delome, a shipfitter injured on the Barge UBL 550 while it rested on a marine railway. Appellants contend that the trial court had no admiralty and maritime jurisdiction over this controversy, that the court's conclusions concerning the unseaworthiness of the barge and the negligence...

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