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- Title: Gremillion v. Gulf Coast Catering Co.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 28, 1990
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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Smith, Circuit Judge. Brian Gremillion and his wife seek recovery for damages arising from a back injury that he incurred while transferring a piece of heavy equipment from a crewboat onto a shoreside housing barge. The plaintiffs premise their causes of action upon the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.App. ç 688, and general maritime law. They claim that Gremillion was a seaman and thus entitled to the special remedies incident to such status. However, as a threshold matter we are called upon to determine whether an unconventional floating structure is a vessel. If it is, a different measure of damages may flow to Gremillion and his wife, assuming of course that he satisfies the remaining preconditions of seaman status.1 Concluding, however, that Gremillion was not assigned to a Jones Act ""vessel"" and that the plaintiffs have failed to frame an actionable maritime negligence claim against the barge owner, we affirm the summary judgment.