Glynn J. Pelotto v. L & N Towing Company

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1979-10-12

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JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge: A seaman’s right to maintenance and cure may sometimes require the filing of successive suits, and so it has been said that: “[tjhus the seaman is to keep biting at his cherry.” 1 That principle and several others are at issue in this admiralty s…

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