Legal Opinion
Fox v. the SS Moremacwind
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided March 21, 1960No. 7929PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.
Libellant, employed by Waterfront Ship Service Corporation, hereinafter called “Waterfront”, was a member of the gang doing ship’s carpentry work aboard the Moremacwind on September 10, 1957, while the vessel was anchored in the stream off the piers of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company at Newport News, Virginia. At approximately 3:20 p. m., libellant, while operating a portable electric hand saw bearing the trade name Skilsaw, caught his left hand in the blade of the saw, causing him to lose three fingers of the left hand. Li-bellant was wearing gloves at…
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