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SOLET v. M/V CAPT. H. V. DUFRENE

Civ. A. No. 67-1713.

303 F.Supp. 980 (1969)

August SOLET, Plaintiff, v. M/V CAPT. H. V. DUFRENE, its engines, boilers, furniture, gear, tackle and apparel, etc., in rem, and Elvin J. Dufrene, in personam, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

August 19, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey J. Lewis, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

William A. Porteous III, New Orleans, La., for defendants.

RUBIN, District Judge:

On the morning of April 13, 1966 the M/V CAPT. H.V. DUFRENE and her crew were shrimping in the Gulf of Mexico approximately two miles off the Louisiana coast. August Solet, a deckhand aboard the trawler, was using a winch to lift a net containing a haul of shrimp. The winch cable ran through a block suspended from a shackle. The shackle was fastened to a pad eye, or "U" bolt, that was welded to a steel cross-arm on the lifting boom. The weld...

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