Brown v. Doxsee Sea Clam, Co.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barry Salman, J.), entered March 23, 1995, which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that it is time barred, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the motion denied and the complaint reinstated.

This is an action for damages under the Jones Act (46 USC, Appendix § 688) and general maritime law. Plaintiff, employed by defendant from October 1989 until January 17, 1990 as a deckhand aboard its vessel F/V Day Star, a clam dredger, sustained a laceration of his forehead on November…