Kitchens v. Gulf States Marine & Mining Co.

HAMBLEN, Chief Justice.

Appellant instituted this suit in the District Court of Harris County, seeking damages for injuries sustained to his right leg while employed as a deckhand aboard ap-pellee’s tug Dispatch. The suit was brought under the provisions of Title 46, Sec. 688, United States Code Annotated, commonly known as the Jones Act Appellant alleged that while employed as aforesaid he was on January 14, 1953, ordered to clean out a locker located under the forward deck of appellee’s tug; that in said locker employees other than appellant had stowed steel cables, paint and other…