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LaCROSS v. CRAIGHEAD

Civ. A. No. 76-3755.

466 F.Supp. 880 (1979)

Floyd J. LaCROSS v. George CRAIGHEAD, AWI, Inc., American Home Assurance Company and Milchem, Incorporated.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

March 6, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Kohnke, IV, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Rufus C. Harris, III, Terriberry, Carroll, Yancey & Farrell, New Orleans, La., for Craighead and American Home.

Wood Brown, III, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, New Orleans, La., for AWI.

Antonio E. Papale, Jr., Hailey, McNamara, McNamara & Hall, Metairie, La., for Milchem.

OPINION

SEAR, District Judge:

Plaintiff, Floyd LaCross, was employed as captain of the M/V CATHY RUTH, a vessel owned and operated by George Craighead (Craighead). The vessel was under time charter to AWI, Inc., the owner of an oil exploration rig in the Gulf of Mexico. On October 7, 1976, Captain LaCross received instructions from an AWI toolpusher to proceed with his vessel to a dock facility in Venice, Louisiana operated by Milchem, Inc., a drilling mud...

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