CHISHOLM v. UHP PROJECTS, INC.

No. Civ.A 2:96CV578.

30 F.Supp.2d 928 (1998)

Philip A. CHISHOLM, Plaintiff, v. UHP PROJECTS, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

December 22, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Harlen Sump, Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, Norfolk, VA, Michael B. Latti, Latti Associates, Boston, MA, David J. Berg, Latti Associates LLP, Boston, MA, for Phillip A. Chisholm, plaintiff.

Temple W. Cabell, Schaffer & Cabell, Richmond, VA, Richard White Schaffer, Schaffer & Cabell, Richmond, VA, for UHP Projects, Inc., defendant.

Temple W. Cabell, Schaffer & Cabell, Richmond, VA, Richard White Schaffer, Schaffer & Cabell, Richmond, VA, for UHP Projects, Inc., third-party plaintiff.

Frank Bell Miller, III, Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller, Richmond, VA, for Wilco Supply, Inc., third-party defendant.

James Richard Harvey, III, Frank Nash Bilisoly, IV, Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, VA, for Spir Star Druck-schlauche GMBH, third-party defendant.


ORDER and OPINION

DOUMAR, District Judge.

This case involves the question of what is or is not admiralty jurisdiction in connection with the right to a trial by jury. It also concerns the question as to whether a plaintiff is entitled to a double recovery. The plaintiff seaman suffered a head injury while aboard a vessel in port in Chesapeake, Virginia. The plaintiff filed an action in diversity in this Court alleging that the defendant was negligent...

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