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GUIDRY v. SOUTH LOUISIANA CONTRACTORS, INC.

No. 77-3435.

614 F.2d 447 (1980)

Harold J. GUIDRY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SOUTH LOUISIANA CONTRACTORS, INC., a/k/a Soloco, Inc., and Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Defendants-Appellants, South Louisiana Contractors, Inc., a/k/a Soloco, Inc., Defendant-Appellee, J. P. Messina Contractors and Hartford Insurance Co., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied April 22, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Onebane, Donohoe, Bernard, Torian, Diaz, McNamara & Abell, John G. Torian, II, John A. Jeansonne, Jr., Lafayette, La., for defendants-appellants.

George W. McHugh, Jr., St. Martinville, La., Domengeaux & Wright, Bob F. Wright, Anthony Moroux, Lafayette, La., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GEWIN, RUBIN and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 22, 1980.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

Familiar questions — whether an employee was a Jones Act seaman and, if so, which of two companies is liable for his injuries — arise in yet another of the protean factual situations presented by amphibious industrial operations. We conclude that the issues of negligence, comparative negligence and quantum of damages were properly put to the jury, and that the...

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