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SMITH v. ODOM OFFSHORE SURVEYS, INC.

Civ. A. No. 80-469-B.

588 F.Supp. 1168 (1984)

Roger Dale SMITH v. ODOM OFFSHORE SURVEYS, INC., et al.

United States District Court, M.D. Louisiana.

June 17, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold J. Lamy, Barker, Boudreaux, Lamy, Gardner & Foley, New Orleans, La., William F. Riley, Zuccaro, Riley, Pintard & Brown, Natchez, Miss., for plaintiffs.

W.S. McKenzie, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, La., Nigel E. Rafferty, Donald A. Hoffman, Lawrence J. Centola, Jr., Gerolyn P. Roussel, New Orleans, La., for defendants.

OPINION

POLOZOLA, District Judge.

The issue presented to this Court is whether Roger Dale Smith was a Jones Act Seaman at the time of his accident and death. The Court, for reasons which follow, finds that Smith was a seaman.

Smith was employed by the defendant, Odom Offshore Surveys, Inc. (OOSI). On May 30, 1980, Smith was injured when a willow tree which he was cutting down struck him in the head while he was working for OOSI at Carr Pointe, Louisiana...

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