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BARTON v. ZAPATA OFFSHORE COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 74-1205.

397 F.Supp. 778 (1975)

Jerry Wayne BARTON, Plaintiff, v. ZAPATA OFFSHORE COMPANY and Cochran-Dean Company, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

July 8, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

August J. Bubert, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

J. Walter Ward, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendant Zapata Offshore Co.

Edward J. Koehl, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendant Cochran-Dean Co.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, District Judge:

The plaintiff has moved that the judg-interest, and for a new trial on the issue ment be amended to allow prejudgment of damages. For the following reasons, both motions are denied.

As is the usual case in the post-Romero-Fitzgerald era, the plaintiff sought a jury trial of both the Jones Act and unseaworthiness claims. The jury found that the defendant, Zapata Offshore Company...

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