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EBANKS v. GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO.

Nos. 79-2808, 79-3808 to 79-3810.

688 F.2d 716 (1982)

German EBANKS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO., a corporation, Defendant-Appellee. Merlin B. PAYMENT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO., a corporation, Defendant-Appellee. Vivian Marie SELF, etc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO., a corporation, Defendant-Appellee. Oliden P. SALOMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO., a corporation, Defendant-Appellee. Bobby E. LAURENDINE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO., a corporation, Defendant-Appellee. Bobby Joe BASSHAM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO., a corporation, Defendant-Appellee. Edward BURKE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO., a corporation, Defendant Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee, Chevron Shipping Co., Third Party Defendant-Appellee. Gene MOORE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO., a corporation, Defendant Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee, Chevron Shipping Co., Third Party Defendant-Appellee. Henley SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO., a corporation, Defendant Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee, Chevron Shipping Co., Third Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 17, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard C. Jaques, James F. Finn, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs-appellants in No. 79-2808.

Dewey R. Villareal, Jr., Tampa, Fla., Courtney Wilder Stanton, Jacksonville, Fla., for defendant-appellee in all cases.

Arthur Roth, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellants in Nos. 79-3808, 79-3809 and 79-3810.

Ulmer, Murchison, Ashby & Ball, Jacksonville, Fla., for defendant-appellee in Nos. 79-3808 and 79-3810.

Fowler, White, Gillen, Boggs, Villareal & Banker, Tampa, Fla., for defendant-appellee in Nos. 79-3808, 79-3809 and 79-3810.

Before TUTTLE, KRAVITCH and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 17, 1982.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

The appellants here seek reversal of a district court judgment in favor of Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, their Jones Act employer. Their principal contention on appeal is that the trial court erred, upon submitting special interrogatories to the jury in this Jones Act and general maritime law negligence action, in including a question which required the jury to determine...

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