COMPTON, Justice.
This is an action for personal injuries suffered by a passenger who slipped and fell while aboard a ferryboat sailing in navigable waters. The sole question we consider is whether the trial court erred in ruling that the action is not a maritime tort to be decided under federal admiralty law.
Just before dawn on December 2, 1993, plaintiff Brenda Bullock, now Brenda Matthews, drove her motor vehicle aboard the state-owned ferryboat Williamsburg...
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