SEA CALM SHIPPING CO., S.A. v. COOKS

88-1116.

565 So.2d 212 (1990)

SEA CALM SHIPPING CO., S.A., et al. v. Mattie Mae COOKS, individually and as personal representative of the estate of Theodore Cooks, Sr., deceased.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 29, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney H. Schell of Reams, Vollmer, Philips, Killion, Brooks & Schell, Mobile, for appellant.

Richard F. Pate and J. Wesley Sowell, Mobile, for appellee.


ALMON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered on a jury verdict in favor of Mattie Mae Cooks, individually and as the personal representative of the estate of Theodore Cooks, Sr., and against Sea Calm Shipping Co., S.A. ("Sea Calm"), Sea Traders, S.A., and Hansa Heavy Lift Shipping GmbH ("Hansa")1 for $500,000 in an admiralty workmen's compensation action brought under 33 U.S.C. § 905 (1986). The issues concern the sufficiency...

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