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BURKS v. AMERICAN RIVER TRANSP. CO.

Civ. A. No. 77-420-A.

486 F.Supp. 603 (1980)

Joseph BURKS v. AMERICAN RIVER TRANSPORTATION COMPANY.

United States District Court, M. D. Louisiana.

March 7, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd J. Falcon, Jr., Dodd, Barker, Avant, Wall & Thomas, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiff, Joseph Burks.

Eugene R. Groves, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, La., for intervenors, Rogers Terminal and Shipping Corp. and Northwestern Nat. Cas. Co.

John O. Charrier, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, La., for defendant, American River Transp. Co.

Thomas K. Kirkpatrick, Kirkpatrick, Keyser & Kirkpatrick, Baton Rouge, La., for third party defendant, Rogers Terminal and Shipping Corp.

E. GORDON WEST, District Judge:

Joseph Burks works as a longshoreman for Rogers Terminal and Shipping Corporation, a stevedoring company, operating at the Port of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He works primarily aboard the K-1, a special kind of floating barge outfitted with a deck crane and other deck machinery which enables it to unload cargo from river barges directly into seagoing vessels. The K-1 is owned by Burks' employer, Rogers Terminal and Shipping Corporation...

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