NOBLE DRILLING CORPORATION v. SAUNIER

No. 21317.

335 F.2d 62 (1964)

NOBLE DRILLING CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Eunick P. SAUNIER, Jr., Appellee. Eunick P. SAUNIER, Jr., Appellant, v. NOBLE DRILLING CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 4, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Ford Reese, Thomas Wyllie, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

John P. Nelson, Jr., Leonard S. Ungar, Harris M. Dulitz, John R. Martzell, New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, WISDOM, Circuit Judge, and McRAE, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Eunick Saunier sued Noble Drilling Corporation to recover damages for injuries resulting from a fall which occurred while he was employed as a roughneck on an off-shore submersible drilling rig. The case was tried to a jury on questions of negligence under the Jones Act (46 U.S.C.A. § 688) and unseaworthiness. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff and an award of $83,670.71.1 We affirm.

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