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ALVEZ v. AM. EXP.

46 N.Y.2d 634 (1979)

Gilberto Alvez, Respondent, v. American Export Lines, Inc., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Joseph Vinal Ship Maintenance, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 3, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen K. Carr and Gary D. Stumpp for defendant and third-party plaintiff-appellant.

Paul C. Matthews for respondent.

William M. Kimball and Peter M. Pryor for third-party defendant-respondent.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges GABRIELLI, WACHTLER and FUCHSBERG concur with Judge JASEN; Judge JONES dissents and votes to reverse in a separate opinion.

JASEN, J.

To be resolved on this appeal is the question whether the wife of an injured harbor worker may seek recovery for loss of consortium occasioned by her husband's injury.

Respondent, while working as a ship's lasher aboard appellant's1 vessel, the "Export Builder", was injured within the territorial waters of this State when...

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