Legal Opinion
Rutherford v. Lake Michigan Contractors, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 7, 2002No. 00-1850PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff appeals from the grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant, Lake Michigan Contractors, Inc., on his negligence claim under the Jones Act, 46 App. U.S.C. § 688, and his common law admiralty claim of unseaworthiness. After review, we affirm on other grounds.
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Defendant is a dredging company headquartered in Holland, Michigan. Plaintiff was a deckhand on defendant’s tugboat, the Shirley Joy. The tugboat was being used in a dredging project on the Genessee River in Rochester, New York. Plaintiff injured his back on August 20, 1997, while handling a steel cable on the tugboat.
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