LEWIS v. MARITIME OVERSEAS CORP.

No. 98-CA-0437.

723 So.2d 1001 (1998)

Larry Nathan LEWIS v. MARITIME OVERSEAS CORPORATION and Overseas Bulktank Corporation.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

November 10, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Estelle E. Mahoney, Louis J. St. Martin, Stephen J. Johnson, St. Martin & Mahoney, Houma, Louisiana, Attorneys for Plaintiff/Appellee.

Gerard T. Gelpi, G. Beauregard Gelpi, Gelpi, Sullivan, Carroll & Gibbens, New Orleans, Louisiana, Attorneys for Defendants/Appellants.

Court composed of Judge WILLIAM H. BYRNES, III and Judge JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG and Judge JAMES F. McKAY, III.


McKAY, Judge.

In this maritime personal injury case, the defendants, Maritime Overseas Corporation and Overseas Bulktank Corporation, appeal the trial court's ruling which cast both of them in judgment and found that the M/V OVERSEAS ARCTIC was unseaworthy, that plaintiff was disabled until September 1995, that his monthly wage base was $5,355.00, that plaintiff was entitled to general damages in the amount of $9,000.00 as well as pre-judgment interest. We affirm...

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