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RIDGEDELL v. OLYMPIC TOWING CORPORATION

Civ. A. No. 11218.

205 F.Supp. 952 (1962)

Mrs. Helen Peek RIDGEDELL, Individually as Tutrix and the Personal Representative of Richard Ozema Ridgedell, Dec'd, v. OLYMPIC TOWING CORPORATION.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana.

June 12, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. B. Ponder, Jr., Amite, La., for plaintiff.

Edward S. Bagley, New Orleans, La. (Terriberry, Rault, Carroll, Martinez & Yancey), New Orleans, La., for defendant.

ELLIS, District Judge.

Plaintiff brings this suit under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, as personal representative of Richard Ozema Ridgedell who died from injuries sustained while working aboard defendant's tug and barge. The complaint alleges negligence on the part of defendant's employees and the unseaworthiness of defendant's barge. Plaintiff seeks damages for pecuniary loss and loss of love, affection, and companionship for herself individually and as...

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