TROCHEZ v. HOLLAND-AMERICAN CRUISE LINES

No. 76-2042.

353 So.2d 864 (1977)

Jorge TROCHEZ, Appellant, v. The HOLLAND-AMERICAN CRUISE LINES, the Monarch Cruise Lines, and the "Monarch Sun", Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied January 26, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Huggett, Miami, for appellant.

Fowler, White, Burnett, Hurley, Banick & Knight and Frank J. Marston and C. Douglas Skinner, Miami, for appellees.

Before HENDRY, C.J., and HAVERFIELD and NATHAN, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal by Jorge Trochez, a seaman, from a summary judgment for defendant in this negligence action instituted under the Jones Act (46 U.S.C.A. § 688).

Trochez was employed aboard a cruise ship owned and operated by the defendant-appellee, The Monarch Cruise Lines, and while carrying a large pressure hose, he tripped on the raised metal lip which was protruding out from the top of one of the ship's stairways and slipped, falling...

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