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FLOYD v. LYKES BROS. S.S. CO., INC.

No. 87-1596.

844 F.2d 1044 (1988)

FLOYD, Maria E., individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Floyd, James H., Deceased, Appellant, v. LYKES BROS. STEAMSHIP CO., INC.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided April 21, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Z. Steinman, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

John T. Biezup, Palmer, Biezup & Henderson, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee.

Before WEIS, GREENBERG, and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges.

Submitted under Third Circuit Rule 12(6) March 9, 1988.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.

The question for decision is whether the captain of a merchant ship violated applicable maritime law when he buried at sea a seaman who died of a heart attack on the return trip of the vessel eight days from its next port-of-call. After seaman James Floyd died, the captain conducted a burial-at-sea ritual. Maria Floyd, the seaman's daughter, for...

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