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BLANCO v. PHOENIX COMPANIA DE NAVEGACION, S. A.

No. 8558.

304 F.2d 13 (1962)

Luis BLANCO, Libellant, Appellee, v. PHOENIX COMPANIA DE NAVEGACION, S. A., Respondent, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 23, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter B. Martin, Jr., Norfolk, Va. (Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Sidney H. Kelsey, Norfolk, Va. (Ralph Rabinowitz, Newport News, on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and HAYNSWORTH and BOREMAN, Circuit Judges.

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

The principal question raised on this appeal is whether a ship and her owner may limit liability to a seaman under the General Maritime Law by stipulating in the contract of employment the maximum monetary recovery for scheduled personal injuries. A subsidiary question is whether, aside from such a contractual limitation, the present libellant's recovery is excessive.

On September 29, 1960, Luis Blanco, an able-bodied seaman of Spanish...

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