Legal Opinion
Conde v. Starlight I, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 9, 1997No. 96-1089, 96-1209PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYR, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellee Joaquim Conde sustained a permanent injury to his left hand on August 13, 1988, while serving as first mate aboard the commercial fishing vessel F/V ALENTEJO which was navigating in rough waters east of Nantucket on the Georges Bank. 1 .Two days after the accident, Edward Monteiro, an adjuster for the ALEN-TEJO’s insurer, obtained an oral statement from Conde in Portuguese. Since Conde could speak little English and was unable to read it, Monteiro purported to translate the written English statement back to Conde in Portuguese. Unbeknownst to Conde, the…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Wagenmann v. AdamsCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
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