SAVARD v. MARINE CONTRACTING INC.

No. 18, Docket 71-1819.

471 F.2d 536 (1972)

Freida Gust SAVARD et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MARINE CONTRACTING INC. and Perini Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 26, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ridgway M. Hall, Jr. and Morgan P. Ames, Stamford, Conn. (Cummings & Lockwood, Stamford, Conn.), for appellants.

William L. Hadden, New Haven, Conn. (Pouzzner & Hadden, New Haven, Conn., Clarence A. Hadden and David C. Hadden, New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for appellee Perini Corp.

Before SMITH, KAUFMAN and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges.


J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant appeals from a judgment for defendant entered after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, J. Edward Lumbard, Judge, in an action for the wrongful death of her husband Robert Savard, a diver in the employ of Marine Contracting, Inc.1 Federal jurisdiction is based on the Jones Act and general maritime law of the United States. The jury returned...

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