TEXAS COMPANY v. SAVOIE

No. 16188.

240 F.2d 674 (1957)

The TEXAS COMPANY, Appellant, v. Mrs. Marowigne Edna McConnell SAVOIE, Administratrix of the estate of Horace P. Guidry, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

February 5, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest A. Carrere, Jr., New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Jack W. Thomson, Jr., James Julian Coleman, Clay, Coleman, Dutrey & Thomson, New Orleans, for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and HOLMES and BORAH, Circuit Judges.


HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

The appellee, as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, brought this suit against the appellant, the decedent's employer, for recovery of damages, under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, for the death of her husband, predicating liability upon negligence, while decedent was acting as a member of the crew of the Mary Virginia, a vessel operated and controlled by appellant on Lake...

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