Spinola v. Costa Line, Inc.

OPINION AND ORDER

PIERAS, District Judge.

This is an action founded on the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of this Court, 28 U.S.C. § 1333. Plaintiff seeks damages allegedly sustained on November 19, 1983, when as a passenger aboard the cruise vessel “CARLA C”, she claims to have been sexually molested.

The matter was tried to the Court on February 4, 1985. At Trial, through their witnesses, the parties stated their case as follows:

I. PLAINTIFFS CASE:

Plaintiff, Susan Boone Spinola, is a twenty-five year old woman from Tampa, Florida. She has an eleventh grade education and since leaving…