Scudero v. Todd Shipyards Corp.
Washington Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtHamilton, J.
Defendant appeals from an adverse judgment, entered under admiralty principles, assigning error to the application of maritime law, refusal of proposed instructions, and the admission of certain evidence.
Plaintiff, a carpenter, was injured aboard a nonself-pro-pelled barge, the Limestone, anchored in defendant’s shipyard on the navigable waters of Puget Sound. The Limestone is a 4,271 ton, 350 foot, reinforced concrete LST type craft, constructed at San Francisco in 1943 for the military service. During or after World War II it came to Tacoma, where it remained until removed to defendant’s…
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