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CORMIER v. CLIFF'S DRILLING CO.

No. 93-1260.

640 So.2d 552 (1994)

James C. CORMIER and Mrs. James C. Cormier, Plaintiffs-Appellees/Appellants Intervenor-Robert B. Keaty, v. CLIFF'S DRILLING COMPANY, the United Kingdom Mutual Steamship Assurance Association (Bermuda) Ltd Mt & Order to Dis & Cliff's 6/9/92 Barge No. 2, Defendants-Appellants/Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

May 4, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Joseph DeJean, Opelousas, and Robert Burke Keaty, Lafayette, for James C. Cormier, etc.

Walter Kay Jamison, III, Lafayette, for Cliff's Drilling Co., et al.

Before YELVERTON and THIBODEAUX, JJ., and CULPEPPER, J. Pro Tem.

YELVERTON, Judge.

A jury found that on September 27, 1990 Cliff's Drilling Company was negligent on board the barge B-2, and that its negligence was a legal cause of damages to the plaintiff under Jones Act standards. It also found that the barge B-2 was unseaworthy and that this was a proximate cause of the injury to the plaintiff. It found that Cormier himself was not negligent.

There were two accidents in this case and separate interrogatories for each...

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