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COTTON v. DELTA QUEEN STEAMBOAT CO., INC.

No. 2009-CA-0736.

36 So.3d 262 (2010)

Alton J. COTTON, Jr. v. DELTA QUEEN STEAMBOAT COMPANY, INC. and Delta Queen Steamboat, LLC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

January 6, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Blake Jones, David C. Whitmore, Julie M. Sumrall, Scheuermann and Jones, New Orleans, LA, for Alton J. Cotton, Jr.

Wilton E. Bland, III, Patrick E. Costello, Jacques P. Degruy, Mouledoux Bland Legrand & Brackett, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Delta Queen Steamboat Company.

(Court composed of Judge DENNIS R. BAGNERIS, SR., Judge EDWIN A. LOMBARD, Judge PAUL A. BONIN).

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

Alton Cotton, Jr., sued his employer, Delta Queen Steamboat Company, Inc. (Delta Queen), claiming that while working aboard the riverboat vessel DELTA QUEEN he was injured in the course of offloading the ship's garbage up a levee. Claiming that he slipped and fell, hurting his back, he sought damages under the Jones Act1 and the general maritime law as well as the maintenance and cure due him as a seaman.

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