O'Brien v. City of New York

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., brought under the Jones Act (46 USC § 688), the plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Leone, J.), dated November 4, 1989, which, upon a decision by the court that the plaintiff Peter O’Brien was not a "seaman” within the purview of the Jones Act, dismissed the complaint.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

When the plaintiff Peter O’Brien first began to work for the City of New York in 1974 he was assigned as a deckhand to the ferryboat "John F. Kennedy”. In 1981 O’Brien was promoted…