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MARITIME OVERSEAS CORP. v. ELLIS

No. 94-1057.

971 S.W.2d 402 (1998)

MARITIME OVERSEAS CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. Richard ELLIS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided April 16, 1998.

Rehearing Overruled July 3, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Broocks, Thomas B. Greene, III, Houston, Joe R. Greenhill, Austin, Marc A. Antonetti, Jane Nenninger Bland, Houston, Margaret Niver McGann, Salt Lake City, UT, Sally Mann Romano, Houston, for Petitioner.

John M. O'Quinn, Gary M. Riebschlager, Eugene A. Cook, Kendall C. Montgomery, Mareen McPherson Spector, Joe H. Reynolds, Gael Plauché, Christian A. Steed, Houston, for Respondent.

BAKER, Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ENOCH, SPECTOR, ABBOTT and HANKINSON, Justices, join.

This case involves Richard Ellis's Jones Act claims for injuries he sustained aboard a vessel owned by Maritime Overseas Corporation. The trial court rendered judgment on the jury's verdict for Ellis for actual and exemplary damages and awarded prejudgment interest. The court of appeals affirmed the actual damages award, but reversed the awards of exemplary...

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