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TEXACO, INC. v. ADDISON

No. 90-CA-0115.

613 So.2d 1193 (1993)

TEXACO, INC. and Gulf Coast Contracting Services, Inc. v. John D. ADDISON.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 18, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Low, IV, Watkins & Eager, Jackson, S. Robert Hammond Jr., Bryant Clark Dukes Blakeslee Ramsay & Hammond, Hattiesburg, Richard P. Salloum, Franke Rainey & Salloum, Gulfport, for appellants.

Samuel E. Farris, Hattiesburg, for appellee.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and SULLIVAN and McRAE, JJ.

McRAE, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal challenges the jurisdiction of the Forrest County Chancery Court and its interpretation of the law in a November 9, 1989, award of damages to John D. Addison pursuant to the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A.App. § 688 (1988), and general maritime law. Finding that the case was properly before the chancellor, we affirm his findings that Addison was a Jones Act seaman and that Texaco and Gulf Coast Contracting Services are jointly...

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