NOBLE DRILLING CORP.

v.

SMITH

Citator

Cited By (11 total)

• Juneau Tanker Corp. v. Sims, 627 So. 2d 1230 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993)
  …and FARNELL, CROCKETT, Associate Judge, concur. . It is of no moment that he was not a union member and lacked such attributes of seaman status as a Coast Guard license. See Noble Drilling Corp. v. Smith, 412 F. 2d 952, 957 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 396 U.S. 906, 90 S.Ct. 221, 24 L.Ed.2d 182 (1969) (“Since a man does not become a seaman by papers alone, he should not be denied his statutory status as a seaman merely because he is not a paper seaman.”).…
• Davis v. Hill Eng'g, Inc., 549 F.2d 314 (5th Cir. 1977)
  …tionary drilling platform had no relation to the function of the tender, where he lived, in servicing the structure. Rather, a case directly supportive of our conclusion here is Noble Drilling Corp. v. Smith, 5 Cir.1969, 412 F. 2d 952, cert. denied, 396 U.S. 906, 90 S.Ct. 221, 24 L.Ed.2d 182, in which the plaintiff was a mud pumper assigned to operate a mud pump permanently affixed to the deck of the tender. The Court concluded that the plaintiff’s duties directly contributed to the fulfillment of one of th…

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• Longmire v. SEA Drilling Corp., 610 F.2d 1342 (5th Cir. 1980)
  …everal past decisions how that term and the phrase “master or member of a crew of a vessel,”2 although historically distinguishable, have come to be used interchangeably. Noble Drilling Corp. v. Smith, 412 F. 2d 952, 955-56 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 396 U.S. 906, 90 S.Ct. 221, 24 L.Ed.2d 182 (1969); Boatel, Inc. v. Delamore, 379 F. 2d 850, 859 (5th Cir. 1967); Offshore Co. v. Robison, 266 F. 2d 769, 774 (5th Cir. 1959). In order to avail himself of the liberal terms of the Jones Act, Longmire must show th…