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ROBINSON v. POCAHONTAS, INC.

No. 71-1256.

477 F.2d 1048 (1973)

Earl E. ROBINSON, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. POCAHONTAS, INC., et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank H. Handy, Jr., Boston, Mass., with whom Viola B. Kneeland, Richard B. Kydd, and Kneeland, Splane & Kydd, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellants.

Albert P. Zabin, Boston, Mass., with whom Schneider & Reilly, Inc., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

This is a diversity suit in which plaintiff, Earl E. Robinson, a seaman, seeks recovery from the defendant, Sea Coast IV, Inc., the charterer of the vessel on which he was injured, for negligence under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688 (1970), and for unseaworthiness and maintenance and cure under the general maritime law. The jury awarded the plaintiff verdicts of $45,000.00 on the Jones Act and unseaworthiness counts and $21,366.06 on the...

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