The Texas Company v. Mrs. Marowigne Edna McConnell Savoie, Administratrix of the Estate of Horace P. Guidry

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

The appellee, as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, brought this suit against the appellant, the decedent’s employer, for recovery of damages, under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, for the death of her husband, predicating liability upon negligence, while decedent was acting as a member of the crew of the Mary Virginia, a vessel operated and controlled by appellant on Lake Salvadore

The plaintiff alleged that on February the 4th, 1953, at Well No. 20 in Lake Salvadore, the deceased was in the process of opening a valve, which exploded and blew him off…