Cambra v. Santos
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort, each by a member of the crew of the ' fishing schooner Mary C. Santos registered in Provincetown, against the master and the owners of that vessel, for personal injuries respectively sustained by the plaintiffs in the afternoon of February 24, 1916, in Boston Harbor from an explosion of gasoline.
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Two actions of tort, each by a member of the crew of the ' fishing schooner Mary C. Santos registered in Provincetown, against the master and the owners of that vessel, for personal injuries respectively sustained by the plaintiffs in the afternoon of February 24, 1916, in Boston Harbor from an explosion of gasoline. Writs dated June 25, 1917. The answers of the defendants in each of the cases, in addition to a general denial, alleged that the plaintiff was not in the exerelse of due care but was guilty of negligence which contributed to his injury. In the Superior Court the cases were tried…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
These two common' law actions of tort were brought to recover damages for personal injuries received by the plaintiffs, resulting from a gasoline explosion which occurred on board the fishing schooner Mary C. Santos, while she lay in Boston Harbor. The plaintiffs were members of the crew of the schooner.
The defendants were the owners of the schooner, namely, Manuel C. Santos, the captain in charge, owning twenty of the thirty-two equal shares, Joseph A. Manta, the agent, owning five shares and seven other persons owning one share each. When the vessel was built in 1904 she was equipped with…
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