Young v. Kilroy Oil Co. of Texas, Inc.

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

In this personal injury suit involving federal maritime law, Plaintiff Glen Young appeals a take-nothing judgment rendered in favor of defendant Cities Service Company following a jury verdict awarding plaintiff $505,000 in damages. Kilroy Oil Company of Texas, Inc., was originally a defendant but was dismissed prior to trial.

The plaintiff’s claim arose from an injury which occurred on an offshore oil drilling platform approximately forty miles off the coast of Texas in the Matagorda Bay area. Defendant Cities Service Company (hereafter “Cities”), as leaseholder of the…