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CRUZ v. HENDY INTERN. CO.

No. 77-2700.

638 F.2d 719 (1981)

Vilma Tablas CRUZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HENDY INTERNATIONAL CO., and Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 12, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank A. Silvestri, Robert McComiskey, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Charles F. Lozes, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before FAY, RUBIN and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges.

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

This circuit decided four years ago that the wife of a seaman who survives after suffering a debilitating personal injury has no claim for the loss of consortium she would have enjoyed had he not been injured. Christofferson v. Halliburton Co., 534 F.2d 1147 (5th Cir. 1976), rehearing en banc denied, 542 F.2d 1174 (5th Cir. 1976). Bound by that decision...

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