AMERICAN UNION TRANSPORT, INC., AS OWNER OF THE STEAMSHIP TRANS-UNION, LIBELLANT-APPELLANT,
v.
MATTON TRANSPORTATION CO., INC., RESPONDENT-APPELLEE, TUG JOHN E. MATTON, TUG JOHN E. MATTON, INC., CLAIMANT-APPELLEE. TRANSAMERICAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION AND AMERICAN UNION TRANSPORT, INC., RESPONDENTS-APPELLANTS, AND MATTON TRANSPORTATION CO., INC., RESPONDENT-IMPLEADED-APPELLEE, TUG JOHN E. MATTON, TUG JOHN E. MATTON, INC., CLAIMANT-IMPLEADED-APPELLEE

2d Cir. | 1963-05-14
Nos. 338, 339, Dockets 27874, 27875
317 F.2d 357 United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1963)

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Synopsis

The court affirmed the deputy commissioner's decision that a petition to modify a workers' compensation award, filed more than two years after the last compensation payment, was time-barred by the statute of limitations.


Holding

The court held that a petition for modification of a workers' compensation award, based on a change in condition or mistake of fact, must be filed within two years of the last compensation payment or rejection of the claim.


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A claimant received temporary total and permanent partial disability benefits for a myocardial infarction. After the stipulation was finalized and pay…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

SS Transunion, which struck and damaged grain chutes at a Cargill pier at Albany when poorly managed in a strong wind, appeals from dismissal of its impleading petition and cross-libel against the tug John E. Matton which at the moment of damage was endeavoring to assist the Transunion. The ship’s version of the accident was that instead of pulling the ship’s bow from the pier the tug pushed, the tug’s version that she was pulling but, called too late, unable in time to rescue the ship from the imminent collision with the dock structure. The issue was purely one of fact, resolved by an experienced trial judge on conflicting testimony. The judgment is surely not clearly erroneous. McAllister v. United States, 348 U.S. 19, 20, 75 S.Ct. 6, 99 L.Ed. 20.

Affirmed.


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