Commonwealth v. Belotte, M.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that the Jones Act “supplement[s] the remedy of maintenance and cure by extending a right of recovery in trial by jury to a seaman injured while in the service of his vessel by negligence” (quotation marks omitted)
• noting there are “two separate requirements of the Jones Act, namely, that the plaintiff have the status of a seaman,’ and that his injury must have been suffered in the course of his employment’ as such.”
• under Jones Act “a seaman is as much in the service of his ship when boarding it on first reporting for duty, quitting it on being discharged, or going to and from the ship while on shore leave, as he is while on board at high sea”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).