AINSWORTH, District Judge.
This is a suit under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, tried by the court without a jury, which at the outset requires a determination of the status of plaintiff as to whether he was a seaman on January 21, 1960, when he sustained physical injuries while employed by defendant Falcon as a floorhand on a submersible oil drilling rig in inland waters near the Louisiana coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
The drilling rig known as Rig...
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