Robinson v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.

YARRUT, Judge.

This appeal is by Plaintiff from a judgment of the district court maintaining Defendant’s exceptions of no right or cause of action, and dismissing Plaintiff’s suit.

Plaintiff sued in tort to recover for personal injuries, etc. suffered while working as a longshoreman in the hold of a vessel owned, operated, controlled, manned and provisioned under the care and custody of Defendant.

The accident occurred when the vessel (S.S. ZOELLA LYKES) was afloat in the navigable waters of the United States, to-wit, the Mississippi River, at the Nashville Avenue wharf in New Orleans. Plaintiff…