Willis v. Titan Contractors Corp.

PRICE, Justice.

This is a suit for personal injuries brought by appellant against his employer, Titan Contractors, as a seaman under the Jones Act (46 U.S.C. § 688) arising out of an injury received by appellant when he slipped on the bow of a motor skiff in the Houston Ship Channel. From an adverse jury verdict under a Jones Act submission, appellant brings this appeal, asserting seventeen points of error. We affirm.

In his principal points of appeal appellant contends that he was a seaman as a matter of law; that an erroneous definition of seaman was submitted to the jury; that irrespective…