Allen Fordham and Willie Hightower v. Belcher Towing Company
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
The district court held that 46 U.S.C.A. § 763a, which provides that a suit for recovery of damages for personal injury or death arising out of a maritime tort must be commenced within three years from the date the cause of action accrued, barred this claim which had accrued before the statute was enacted on October 6, 1980. We reverse.
Allen Fordham and Willie Hightower were injured while working as stevedores on the M/V Pan Atlantic on November 16, 1978. On August 11,1982, they sued Belch-er Towing Company in federal court, alleging that the company had negligently used its tugboats to pull…
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