JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:
On April 29, 1969, Harold Burns, an employee of Anchor-Wate, was fatally injured while tallying pipe aboard a barge owned by Brown and Root, Inc. Burns' father brought this survival action against his son's employer, Anchor-Wate, under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, and against Brown and Root, under the general maritime law on the theory that the barge was unseaworthy.
The District Court, at the close of Appellant's evidence...
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