Legal Opinion
Greenville Shipbuilding Corp. v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.
District Court, N.D. Mississippi
Decided November 19, 1971No. GC 7121PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
ORMA R. SMITH, District Judge.
The incident which gives rise to this litigation occurred on Lake Ferguson, a navigable waterway near Greenville, Mississippi on the Mississippi River, on the afternoon of January 20, 1970, when tankerman Ivey Harold Duke, a member of the crew of the M/V J. E. VICKERS, stepped down from the deck of the Barge JOHNNA B onto a scaffold placed on the deck of the steel hull paint barge #25, positioned alongside the Barge JOHNNA B, and losing his footing, plunged into the water between the two barges and drowned.
The incident occurred at the…
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