Legal Opinion
In Re the Complaint of DFDS Seaways (Bahamas) Ltd.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 4, 1987No. 85 Civ. 498 (LBS)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SAND, District Judge.
In this admiralty limitation proceeding, two of the claimants, Doris Hettiger and Harold Lavoie, are the mother and father of Colleen Skantar, a passenger who died in a fire on board the M/V Scandinavian Sun while it was docked in Fort Lauder-dale, Florida. At the time of her death in August 1984, the decedent was married.
Doris Hettiger has asserted claims which, in essence, seek damages for the loss of her daughter’s services. Decedent had provided her mother with free labor in her mother’s butcher shop for some period of time, up until February or March 1984 when…
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