John T. Handy Co. v. Carman

CATHELL, Judge.

This is a crabby case! Appellant, John T. Handy Co., Inc., appeals from a verdict rendered by a jury in the Circuit Court for Somerset County in which James Carman, Ward and Wade Walker, and Jack Howard, appellees and Crisfield crabbers,1 were awarded $78,850 in damages. The cause of action arose out of, and damages were awarded in respect to, the alleged negligence and/or breach of contract by appellant in *191failing to keep shedding shanties operating in a proper fashion causing the deaths of tens of thousands of peelers, busters and, presumably, soft crabs.

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