Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit September 23, 1983, No. 82-4146 (Patton-Tully Transportation Co. v. Ratliff)

PER CURIAM:

INTRODUCTION:

Defendant shipowner Patton-Tully Corporation appeals the district court’s interlocutory order determining that decedent Tommy Lee Ratliff was a Jones Act seaman, and expanding the shipowner’s limitation fund to include the value of the entire flotilla of vessels engaged in the operation in the course of which Ratliff lost his life.