STEWART v. DUTRA CONST. CO., INC.

Nos. 99-1487, 00-1090

230 F.3d 461 (2000)

Willard STEWART, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. DUTRA CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 31, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Kaplan, with whom Thomas M. Bond and The Kaplan/Bond Group were on brief, for appellant.

John J. O'Connor, with whom Frederick E. Connelly, Jr. and Peabody & Arnold LLP were on brief, for appellee.

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


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

In a case reminiscent of Coleridge's storied seafarer, who was doomed to tell the same tale over and over again, see Samuel T. Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), plaintiff-appellant Willard Stewart invites us to reexamine, narrow, or distinguish our holding in DiGiovanni v. Traylor Bros., Inc., 959 F.2d 1119 (1st Cir.1992) (en banc), and declare his floating work platform a dredge...

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