Legal Opinion
Delores Alston Smith, Etc. v. Ithaca Corporation and Texas City Tankers Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 22, 1980No. 77-1601PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
Delores Alston Smith initiated this admiralty suit under the Death on the High Seas Act, 46 U.S.C. §§ 761-768 [DOHSA], the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688, and general maritime law to recover for the wrongful death of her husband, merchant seaman Rufus Eddie Smith. 1 Rufus Smith suffered a fatal heart attack caused by a coronary occlusion on January 25, 1972, two days after being discharged from the crew of the SS V.A. FOGG, a tanker that plied United States coastal waters carrying benzene and other petroleum products. In her suit against the owners and operators of the FOGG,…
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