YEHIA v. ROUGE STEEL CORP.

No. 88-1826.

898 F.2d 1178 (1990)

Kareem YEHIA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ROUGE STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided March 23, 1990.

Rehearing Denied May 7, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis M. O'Bryan (argued), Birmingham, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

Paul D. Galea (argued), John L. Foster, Foster, Meadows & Ballard, Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellee.

Before NELSON and RYAN, Circuit Judges, and MEREDITH, District Judge.


DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for the defendant in an action brought under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688 et seq., and under general maritime law by a deckhand who claimed to have been injured on two occasions while working in the cargo hold of a merchant vessel on the Great Lakes.

There was no evidence of contributory negligence on the part...

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