Legal Opinion
Albert Thompson v. Kawasaki Kisen, K.K., Bay State Stevedoring Company, Third-Party v. Albert Thompson
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 7, 1965No. 6457_1PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.
The sole issue in this negligence action is whether at the jury trial the court properly received evidence of payments to the plaintiff (appellant Thompson) from an unnamed source during a period for which he claimed disability.
Plaintiff, an injured longshoreman, sought recovery from a shipowner (ap-pellee Kawasaki Kisen, K.K.) which in turn sought indemnity from the steve-doring company (Bay State), the plaintiff’s employer. The case was begun in a Massachusetts state court and removed to federal court by the shipowner on the ground of diversity. The shipowner…
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