Legal Opinion
De Sappio v. Axel Brostrom & Son
New York Supreme Court
Decided March 14, 1978Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Louis I. Kaplan, J.
Plaintiff, a longshoreman, brought this action for personal injuries allegedly resulting from negligence and unseaworthiness against the owners of a ship on which he was working when injured in 1970. Defendants then impleaded plaintiff’s employer. In 1973, plaintiff successfully moved to increase the ad damnum from $100,000 to a quarter of a million dollars on each cause of action, and now seeks to further amend to $1,000,000 based on five annual increases in the longshoremen’s minimum wage since 1973. The shipowners and the employer oppose the motion on…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- A. S. Rampell, Inc. v. Hyster Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1957
- Colrick v. . SwinburneNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Lurie v. New Amsterdam Casualty Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1936
- Koi v. P. S. & M. Catering Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1962
- Winter v. . American Aniline Products, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1923
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