Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit August 15, 1986, No. 85-4539 (Patton-Tully Transportation Co. v. Ratliff)

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

We are asked to review district court determinations that an employee who died in the swamping of a 16-foot skiff was a Jones Act seaman, and that his employer was not entitled to a limitation of liability under 46 U.S.C. § 183(a) because it had privity or knowledge of the condition that caused the accident.