Legal Opinion
Callendar v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp.
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided November 29, 1967No. Civ. A. 15652PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
COMISKEY, District Judge.
Clyde E. Callendar seeks damages for negligence under the Jones Act, unseaworthiness, and maintenance and cure against his employer, Reading and Bates Offshore Drilling Co.
On May 21, 1964, the plaintiff was working as a derrick man on the defendant’s vessel, C. P. BAKER, doing offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. As derrickman, plaintiff was at a station on the vessel about eighty-five feet in the air from the drilling floor. There Callendar walked and worked on a monkey board strapped with a safety rope around his waist. The seas were rough.…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Offshore Co. v. RobisonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959
- Superior Oil Company v. Bufford Trahan, Bufford Trahan v. Superior Oil CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
- Marine Drilling Company, Inc., and the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York v. Richard J. AutinCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Taylor v. Packer Diving and Salvage CompanyDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1971
- McCarty v. Service Contracting, Inc.District Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1970