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BOUVIER v. KRENZ

No. 82-3357 Summary Calendar.

702 F.2d 89 (1983)

Manton BOUVIER, Shirley Guidry Bouvier, widow of Manton Bouvier, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. A. KRENZ, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 7, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M.H. Gertler, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Fritz H. Windhorst, Delbert G. Talley, Gretna, La., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, Edward J. Koehl, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Avondale.

James J. Morse, New Orleans, La., for Travelers.

Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer & Matthews, Michael J. Furman, New Orleans, La., for Celotex Corp., Herbert, Cordel, & Pechstein.

Before GEE, RANDALL and TATE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This Jones Act case comes to us on appeal from the district court's grant of summary judgment for the appellee on the issue of the decedent's seaman status. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

The decedent, Manton Bouvier, was an employee of the appellee, Avondale Shipyards.1 He held various jobs during the course of his employment, but the only work alleged to have made him a Jones Act seaman was his five-year...

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