Daniel John Gaspard v. Diamond M. Drilling Company

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• In aetion for Jones Act negligence, unseaworthiness, and maintenance and cure, time charter is presumed and can only be overcome by specific facts that demise charter existed
• Verbal agreement between drilling company and crew boat operator held to be time charter, and not demise charter, where crew boat operator retained possession and command of the vessel, supplied crew, and paid for insurance, operation, and repairs
• “A complete transfer of possession, command, and navigation of the vessel from the owner to the charterer is required in order to constitute a demise charter. It is therefore tantamount to, though just short of, an outright transfer of ownership.”

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