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MATTER OF PATTON-TULLY TRANSP. CO.

No. 82-4146.

715 F.2d 219 (1983)

In the Matter of the Complaint of PATTON-TULLY TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, owner of the MI-183-WR for exoneration from or limitation of liability. PATTON-TULLY TRANSPORTATION CO., Appellant, v. Patricia June RATLIFF, administratrix of the estate of Tommy Lee Ratliff, deceased, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 23, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Beanland, Vicksburg, Miss., for appellant.

Ellis, Braddock & Bost, William M. Bost, Jr., Vicksburg, Miss., for appellee.

Before THORNBERRY, GEE and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

INTRODUCTION:

Defendant shipowner Patton-Tully Corporation appeals the district court's interlocutory order determining that decedent Tommy Lee Ratliff was a Jones Act seaman, and expanding the shipowner's limitation fund to include the value of the entire flotilla of vessels engaged in the operation in the course of which Ratliff lost his life. We conclude that Patton-Tully's appeal of the district court's determination that Ratliff was a Jones...

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