SAMUEL v. TIDEWATER MARINE SERVICES

Civil Action No. 95-3362.

943 F.Supp. 644 (1996)

John SAMUEL v. TIDEWATER MARINE SERVICES (in personam), M/V Tiger Tide (in rem).

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

October 21, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph E. Smith, Ralph E. Smith, Attorney at Law, New Orleans, LA, for John Samuel.

William B. Gibbens, III, Charles A. Cerise, Jr., Gelpi, Sullivan, Carroll & Gibbens, New Orleans, LA, Russell Bennett Ramsey, L'Hoste & Ramsey, New Orleans, LA, for Tidewater Marine Service, Inc.


ORDER AND REASONS

FALLON, District Judge.

Before this Court is defendants' motion for summary judgment. For the following reasons, the defendants' motion for summary judgment is granted.

BACKGROUND

On December 14, 1992, John Samuel, a citizen and resident of Trinidad-Tobago, injured a finger on his right hand while setting up deck tugger wire aboard the M/V TIGER TIDE. At the time of Mr. Samuel's accident, he was stretching...

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