CONDE v. STARLIGHT I, INC.

Nos. 96-1089, 96-1209.

103 F.3d 210 (1997)

Joaquim CONDE, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. STARLIGHT I, INC., Defendant, Appellant. Joaquim CONDE, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. STARLIGHT I, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 9, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Clinton, with whom Kathleen B. Carr and Clinton & Muzyka, P.C. were on brief, Boston, MA, for Starlight I, Inc.

David F. Anderson, with whom Latti Associates was on brief, Boston, MA, for Joaquim Conde.

Before CYR, BOUDIN and Lynch, Circuit Judges.


CYR, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellee Joaquim Conde sustained a permanent injury to his left hand on August 13, 1988, while serving as first mate aboard the commercial fishing vessel F/V ALENTEJO which was navigating in rough waters east of Nantucket on the Georges Bank.1 Two days after the accident, Edward Monteiro, an adjuster for the ALENTEJO's insurer, obtained an oral statement from Conde in Portuguese. Since Conde could speak little...

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