Legal Opinion
Weason v. Harville
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided September 20, 1985No. S-280PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MATTHEWS, Justice.
Ed Weason was hired as a crew member on the M/V Margaret Lynn by Dave Har-ville, Sr. in the summer of 1981. At that time, Weason was hired for the duration of the shrimp season, but the possibility of his working for Harville during the crab season was explicitly left open. On August 31, 1981, Weason injured his left ring finger when he slammed it in a bulkhead door on the Margaret Lynn. It is undisputed that Weason was acting in the vessel’s service when the injury occurred. As a result of his injury, Weason was unable to work as a crewman through November 7, 1981,…
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