MIHALOPOULOS v. WESTWIND AFRICA LINE, LTD.

No. 87-CA-103.

511 So.2d 771 (1987)

Dimitrios Theodoros MIHALOPOULOS v. WESTWIND AFRICA LINE, LTD. and Southern Star Shipping Co., Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

June 1, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Murphy, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, Risley C. Triche, Triche, Sternfels & Nail, Napoleonville, for Westwind Africa Line, Ltd., defendant and appellant.

C. John Caskey, Baton Rouge, Gordon Crawford, Gonzales, for Dimitrios Theodoros Mihalopoulos, plaintiff and appellee.

Before BOWES, GAUDIN and WICKER, JJ.


BOWES, Judge.

Plaintiff Dimitrios Theodoros Mihalopoulos (hereinafter called Jimmy) obtained a judgment in the Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. James, in his maritime action against the defendant, Westwind Africa Line, Ltd. (hereinafter Westwind) in the amount of one million one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($1,125,000.00). Jimmy was seriously injured while employed as a seaman aboard the M/V DESERT PRINCE, owned by Westwind. Westwind has...

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