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WRIGHT v. MARYLAND BOAT LINE, INC.

Nos. 6415, 6416.

351 F.2d 922 (1965)

Francis WRIGHT, Libelant, Appellant, v. MARYLAND BOAT LINE, INC., Claimant, Appellee. Barry PORTNOY, etc., Libelant, Appellant, v. TOLCHESTER LINES, INC., Claimant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

October 26, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Channing Beucler, Boston, Mass., with whom DiMento & Sullivan, Boston, Mass., was on brief for appellant in No. 6415.

George Broomfield, Boston, Mass., for appellant in No. 6416.

Joseph F. Dolan, Boston, Mass., for appellees.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, WATERMAN, Circuit Judge, and GIGNOUX, District Judge.

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal from two proceedings, tried to the court below sitting in admiralty. The claims of both appellants-libelants arise out of injuries they sustained while employed as seamen on the SS Provincetown. Each appellant-libelant urges that the lower court's award of damages to him was in several respects inadequate and must be reversed.

On July 6, 1962, libelants Wright and Portnoy were employed as seamen on the...

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