Legal Opinion
McAller v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 19, 1995No. 94-2198PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Circuit Judge,
Plaintiffs-appellants appeal from the dis-tnct court’s grant of summary judgment to defendant-appellee in this admiralty case. We affirm.
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BACKGROUND
On June 3, 1984, the Tall Ship S/V MARQUES, a participant in the Cutty Sark International Tall Ships Race between Bermuda and Nova Scotia, encountered a violent squall about eighty miles northeast of Bermuda. Almost without warning, and within seconds of starting to take on water, the vessel sank with the loss of nineteen of the twenty-eight persons on board, including the plaintiffs’ decedents and the defendant’s decedent,…
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