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FISHER v. NICHOLS

Nos. 141, 258, Dockets 94-7696, 94-7728.

81 F.3d 319 (1996)

Alexander FISHER, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. Stephen R. NICHOLS, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, and Windship Trident Shipworks, Inc.; Blaine Wise; Clive Youlten, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 11, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Healey, New York City (Mark Healey, New York City, of counsel) for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.

Robert I. Reardon, Jr., The Reardon Law Firm, P.C., New London, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

Before LUMBARD, WINTER, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Stephen R. Nichols appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Mark D. Fox, Magistrate Judge), following a jury verdict for Plaintiff Alexander Fisher. In August 1987, Fisher was injured during a sailing race while serving as a crewmember aboard the OBSESSION, a seventy foot oceangoing sailboat owned by Nichols. Fisher was struck by the boom sheet during a jibe and suffered...

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