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BENNETT v. PERINI CORPORATION

No. 74-1183.

510 F.2d 114 (1975)

William E. BENNETT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PERINI CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 10, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Kaplan, Boston, Mass., with whom Kaplan, Latti & Flannery, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for plaintiff-appellant.

James C. Gahan, Jr., Boston, Mass., for defendant-appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a carpenter by trade, was employed by appellee corporation and assigned to a crew doing cement form work in connection with one of the large concrete piers being poured for the Newport-Jamestown Bridge then under construction in Narragansett Bay. On March 5, 1969, appellant was injured in a fall from one of the pier faces to a platform approximately 15 feet below. He subsequently brought this action in admiralty seeking...

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