Marine Drilling, Inc. v. Arthur Landry, Minor, Through Stanley L. Landry, Next Friend

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana, awarding plaintiff $812.00 for maintenance and cure, in a suit under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, precipitated by an injury sustained by the plaintiff-appellee while employed as a roustabout aboard the off shore submersible drilling rig, American Tidelands 101, on June 9, 1957. 1

Appellee was eighteen years old when he was hired by American Tidelands, Inc. for summer work as a roustabout. On June 9, 1957, while working, appellee sustained a fracture of the right ankle when a section…