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BROWN v. LYKES BROTHERS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, INC.

No. 73-1572 Summary Calendar.

484 F.2d 61 (1973)

M. F. BROWN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LYKES BROTHERS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, INC., in personam, and SS LIPSCOMB LYKES, in rem, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 31, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth D. Kuykendall, Houston, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Atreus Clay, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GEWIN, COLEMAN and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This is an admiralty case brought by appellee Brown against appellant Lykes Brothers Steamship Company, Inc. (Lykes) under the Longshoremen's & Harbor Workers' Compensation Act.1 Brown, a longshore-employee, sought damages for an injury incurred while working in the hull of Lykes' ship, maintaining that his injury was occasioned by a breach of the vessel's warranty of seaworthiness.

The district court found that...

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