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PELOTTO v. L & N TOWING CO.

No. 79-1098. Summary Calendar.

604 F.2d 396 (1979)

Glynn J. PELOTTO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. L & N TOWING COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 12, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darryl J. Tschirn, John M. Robin, Covington, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Francis Emmett, Randolph J. Waits, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, KRAVITCH and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

A seaman's right to maintenance and cure may sometimes require the filing of successive suits, and so it has been said that: "[t]hus the seaman is to keep biting at his cherry."1 That principle and several others are at issue in this admiralty suit. The able District Judge granted defendants' motion for summary judgment, dismissing plaintiff's action for maintenance and cure. After a climb amongst several branches...

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