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SESSLER v. ALLIED TOWING CORP.

Nos. 75-2193, 75-2194.

538 F.2d 630 (1976)

Richard J. SESSLER, Appellant, v. ALLIED TOWING CORPORATION, Appellee. Harold K. GIBBS, Appellant, v. ALLIED TOWING CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 4, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin J. Radin, Norfolk, Va., for appellants.

Morton H. Clark, Norfolk, Va. (Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before BUTZNER and FIELD, Circuit Judges, and WYZANSKI, United States District Judge, District of Massachusetts.

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge.

These appeals concern an explosion in July 1972 aboard a barge owned and operated by Allied Towing Corp. in which two of its employees, Richard Sessler and Harold Gibbs, were injured. The district court found that the vessel was unseaworthy and that Sessler was 75 percent contributorily negligent. It assessed Sessler's damages at $80,000, but applying the comparative negligence rule awarded him only $20,000. It set Gibbs' damages at $2,500...

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