United States First Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants on plaintiff's wrongful death claim alleging that the deceased fell and drowned after slipping from an obviously hazardous place on a pier at a fishery while attempting to return to the commercial fishing boat on which he was working, is reversed and remanded, where the duty of care issue cannot be decided on the undisputed facts in this summary judgment record.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/15/2014
• Published 01/15/2014

Judges

• LYNCH

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel