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VARNADO v. OCEAN DRILLING & EXPLORATION CO.

No. 76-1917.

608 F.2d 557 (1979)

James VARNADO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. OCEAN DRILLING & EXPLORATION COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee, Badeaux, Discon, Cumberland & Barbier, Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 17, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gothard J. Reck, New Orleans, La., for Varnado.

Carl J. Barbier, New Orleans, La., for intervenors.

James H. Daigle, New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before WISDOM, GODBOLD and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Varnado, a seaman on a drilling barge, was injured March 6, 1971, when he fell in the mud room of the vessel. Varnado, then not quite 23 years old, was working as a roustabout in his first offshore job and had been at work only a few days.

Varnado sued his employer under the Jones Act and general maritime law alleging negligence and unseaworthiness. In a trial in 1974 a jury returned Rule 49(a) special verdicts finding that...

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