CEJA v. MIKE HOOKS, INC.

No. 82-3030 Summary Calendar.

690 F.2d 1191 (1982)

Juan CEJA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MIKE HOOKS, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kierr, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, Fallon & Lewis, Vincent J. Glorioso, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, Wood Brown, III, New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before RUBIN, JOHNSON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Ceja appeals the judgment entered by the district court below after a non-jury trial of his personal injury claims for unseaworthiness, and under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688, for negligence.

FACTS

On June 24, 1978, appellant Ceja was engaged as a deckhand in towing operations aboard appellee's vessel. In the course of these operations, Ceja had secured his vessel's tow line to another...

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