Legal Opinion
Debra Ward v. Cross Sound Ferry
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 10, 2001No. 2001PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Debra Ward, a resident of New York, appeals from the March 29, 2001 judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Denis R. Hurley, District Judge) granting summary judgment to defendant-appellee Cross Sound Ferry (“CSF”), a Connecticut company, and dismissing Ward’s complaint as time-barred.
On June 23, 1997, Ward fell and injured herself on a gangway while boarding a CSF ferry in New London, Conn., bound for Orient Point, N.Y. Although Ward’s counsel sent a claim letter to CSF within a month of the…
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