PRADO v. SLOMAN NEPTUN SCHIFFAHRTS, A.G.

No. 91-CA-2450.

611 So.2d 691 (1992)

Antonio PRADO v. SLOMAN NEPTUN SCHIFFAHRTS, A.G., Asiento Shipping Company, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

December 15, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Waltzer & Bagneris, Bruce C. Waltzer, Paul S. Weidenfeld, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

D. Kirk Boswell, Charles F. Lozes, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee Asiento Shipping Co. N.V.

Before BYRNES, CIACCIO and LANDRIEU, JJ.


BYRNES, Judge.

The key issue in the case is whether the law of the United States should be applied to this maritime tort where plaintiff, Prado, is a citizen of the Republic of the Philippines; he joined the crew of the Epsilongas in the Philippines; the Epsilongas was a ship of Netherlands Antilles flag and registry and was the only vessel owned by defendant, Asiento, a corporation organized and existing under he laws of the Netherlands Antilles with its principal...

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