BARGER v. MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE

No. 79-1226.

616 F.2d 730 (1980)

Warren BARGER and Marion Iwancio, Appellees, v. MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, a Municipal Corporation, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 5, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Hughes, Associate City Sol., Baltimore, Md. (Benjamin L. Brown, City Sol., J. Warren Eberhardt, L. William Gawlik, Asst. City Sols., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellant.

Paul D. Bekman, Baltimore, Md. (William H. Engelman, Kaplan, Heyman, Greenberg, Engelman & Belgrad, P. A., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, and HOWARD, District Judge.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Baltimore City appeals from judgments entered against it in two consolidated actions by former marine employees for damages for loss of hearing brought under the Jones Act and general admiralty law. We affirm.

I.

Plaintiffs, Warren Barger and Marion Iwancio, are former members of the fire department of the City of Baltimore. Before they retired, Barger and Iwancio worked in the Marine Division of the department as crew members...

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