Dorothy Stevens Clinton, Administratrix of the Estate of William Isaac Stevens, Deceased v. Ingram Corporation

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

Dorothy Stevens Clinton, as Adminis-tratrix of the Estate of her son William Isaac Stevens (hereafter Stevens), sued the Ingram Corporation and two other defendants to recover damages for the wrongful death of her son. Stevens was lost overboard from the M/V CAL WHITE, a ship owned by Ingram, or from its tow, on December 6, 1969, after an employment of only five days, that is, from December 1, 1969. The plaintiff sought to recover damages from Ingram both under the Jones Act1 and on a claim of unseaworthiness under the General Maritime Law.2 The case was tried to a jury.…