A. C. Stacey v. Sea-Drilling Corporation and Insurance Company of North America

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

A. C. Stacey, the appellant, was gre-viously burned while welding aboard a drilling tender in the Gulf of Mexico. He sued his employer and its insurer under both, the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, and for unseaworthiness. The jury found that the vessel, SEA DRILL NUMBER 7, was not unseaworthy but separately found Sea-Drilling Corporation negligent. In response to a comparative negligence instruction the jury found that Mr. Stacey was 85% contrib-utorily negligent. The ascertained damaged of $12,500 were accordingly reduced by 85% and judgment entered for' $1,875. Such a…