HORSLEY v. MOBIL OIL CORPORATION

Nos. 93-1664, 93-1736.

15 F.3d 200 (1994)

Jonathan C. HORSLEY, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, Appellee. (Two Cases)

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 3, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher M. Perry, with whom Brendan J. Perry and Terance P. Perry, Holliston, MA, were on brief, for appellants.

Brian P. Flanagan, with whom F. Dore Hunter and Flanagan & Hunter, P.C., Boston, MA, were on brief, for appellee.

Before CYR, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Circuit Judge.


CYR, Circuit Judge.

We must decide whether either punitive damages or damages for loss of parental and spousal society allegedly caused by a nonfatal injury to a seaman aboard a vessel in territorial waters are recoverable in an unseaworthiness action under the general maritime law. On plenary review, see Gaskell v. The Harvard Coop. Soc'y, 3 F.3d 495, 497 (1st Cir.1993), we affirm the summary judgment entered against plaintiffs...

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