Legal Opinion
Concordia Co. v. Panek
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 4, 1997No. 96-1798PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SARIS, District Judge.
This case began with a bang. In the early morning hours of March 29, 1993, Gerald Chapman, the night watchman at Concordia Company’s boat yard in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, awoke to the sound of an explosion. The PROWLER, a pleasure boat owned by Anthony Panek and moored at the boat yard, burst into flames. Although fire fighters arrived in only a few minutes, by the time they extinguished the blaze the PROWLER was still afloat but burned almost to its gunnels. However, by morning the PROWLER had sunk beneath the briny waters of Apponagansett Bay, leaving an oil…
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