FORDHAM v. BELCHER TOWING CO.

No. 82-6127 Non-Argument Calendar.

710 F.2d 709 (1983)

Allen FORDHAM and Willie Hightower, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BELCHER TOWING COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 25, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul F. Gerson, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Corlett, Killian, Hardeman, McIntosh & Levi, David F. McIntosh, Gerald E. Rosser, Miami, Fla., for defendant-appellee.

Before RONEY, VANCE and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The district court held that 46 U.S.C.A. § 763a, which provides that a suit for recovery of damages for personal injury or death arising out of a maritime tort must be commenced within three years from the date the cause of action accrued, barred this claim which had accrued before the statute was enacted on October 6, 1980. We reverse.

Allen Fordham and Willie Hightower were injured while working as stevedores on the M/V Pan Atlantic on November...

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