Harry Vincent Brown, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross v. Itt Rayonier, Inc., Defendant-Appellant-Cross

BELL, Circuit Judge:

From an $80,000 judgment, entered upon the court’s findings that plaintiffappellee was a Jones Act seaman at the time of his injury, and that he was injured by virtue of both his employer’s negligence and the unseaworthiness of the employer’s vessel, the employer appeals. The only issues raised by appellant-employer are whether appellee was a crew member of a vessel, and thus a seaman for the purposes of the Jones Act, and whether he was entitled to the warranty of seaworthiness. A cross-appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the court’s finding of…