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HUGHES v. CONTICARRIERS AND TERMINALS, INC.

No. 89 C 2712.

753 F.Supp. 221 (1990)

Rex W. HUGHES, Plaintiff, v. CONTICARRIERS AND TERMINALS, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

November 21, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard C. Jaques, Danes B. Jaques, The Jaques Admiralty Firm, P.C., Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff.

Robert Nienhuis, Goldstein & Price, St. Louis, Mo., D.J. Sartorio, (Local Counsel), Tribler & Marwedel, P.C., Chicago, Ill., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PARSONS, District Judge.

In this case the plaintiff, Rex Hughes, was injured when he fell off the tug boat Conti-Karla into the Mississippi River on June 28, 1986. Hughes filed suit against ContiCarriers and Terminals, Inc., the owner of the tug, seeking compensatory and punitive damages under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.App. section 688 and under general maritime law. This case...

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