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MATTER OF COOPER/T. SMITH STEVEDORING CO., INC.

Civ. A. No. 89-2763.

735 F.Supp. 689 (1990)

In the Matter of COOPER/T. SMITH STEVEDORING CO., INC., as Owner and Operator of the D/B ASHLEIGH C, Official No. 260966, Praying for Exoneration From or Limitation of Liability.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

April 3, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Francis Young, Jr., Alan Guy Brackett, Hebert, Mouledoux & Bland, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff in limitation.

Lawrence D. Wiedemann, W. Lloyd Bowers, John Denenea, Jr., Wiedemann & Fransen, New Orleans, La., for claimant.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SEAR, District Judge.

Claimant, David Thompson, filed a Jones Act claim in state court against Petitioner, Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring Co. In this state court action, Thompson alleges that he sustained personal injuries while handling a mooring line from the Rig BUSSCO I to an oceangoing vessel. Thereafter, Cooper/T. Smith filed this petition for exoneration from or limitation of liability in federal court under 46 U.S.C.App. §...

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