STACEY v. SEA-DRILLING CORPORATION

No. 28305.

424 F.2d 1272 (1970)

A. C. STACEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SEA-DRILLING CORPORATION and Insurance Company of North America, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 4, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald V. Organ, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

George A. Frilot, III, E. Jack Green, Jr., George B. Matthews, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before THORNBERRY, COLEMAN, and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.


COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

A. C. Stacey, the appellant, was greviously burned while welding aboard a drilling tender in the Gulf of Mexico. He sued his employer and its insurer under both the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, and for unseaworthiness. The jury found that the vessel, SEA DRILL NUMBER 7, was not unseaworthy but separately found Sea-Drilling Corporation negligent. In response to a comparative negligence instruction the jury found that Mr. Stacey was 85...

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