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MADORE v. INGRAM TANK SHIPS, INC.

No. 83-2310.

732 F.2d 475 (1984)

Richard E. MADORE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. INGRAM TANK SHIPS, INC., Defendant-Appellant, v. SAMSON OCEAN SYSTEMS, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 21, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Decatur J. Holcombe, E.D. Vickery, Houston, Tex., William E. Wright, Roger D. Allen, New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellant.

Marvin B. Peterson, Houston, Tex., for Madore, et al.

McGlinchey, Stafford & Mintz, John E. Galloway, New Orleans, La., for Samson.

Before CLARK, Chief Judges, RUBIN and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

The district court's computation of the damages due a disabled seaman is attacked on the basis that the court erred in the method it used to discount the award to present value, in failing to make allowance for income and social security taxes that would not be paid if the seaman did not work, and in allowing damages for loss of society to a minor son. We find that the issue concerning the award to the minor son was timely raised and...

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