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HUTCHINS BY HUTCHINS v. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

No. 95-6885.

98 F.3d 602 (1996)

George HUTCHINS, deceased, by Sharon HUTCHINS, personal representative of the estate of George Hutchins, for the wrongful death of George Hutchins, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 28, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee J. Bloomfield, Memphis, TN, William C. Killian, Jasper, TN, for plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas A. Robins, Edwin W. Small, Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN, for defendant-appellee.

Before BARKETT, Circuit Judge, and DYER and HILL, Senior Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Sharon Hutchins appeals the district court's dismissal of her wrongful death action against the Tennessee Valley Authority ("TVA") for the drowning death of her husband George Hutchins, who worked as a deckhand at TVA's Widows Creek Fossil Plant on the Tennessee River in Alabama. The district court held that Hutchins's wrongful death action brought pursuant to the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.app. § 688,

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