Legal Opinion
Taylor v. SS Helen Lykes
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided May 8, 1967No. 6698PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUBIN, District Judge.
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. Monroe Taylor was employed by Lykes Bros. Stemship Co., Inc., as a longshoreman on July 13, 1961, and was assigned to stow bags of wheat, weighing about 180 pounds each, in the lower ’tween deck of the vessel, SS HELEN LYKES.
2. Taylor had worked more than 10 years as a longshoreman, and he had experience in loading sacked cargo of the type he was handling on this occasion.
3. The proper procedure to load this type of cargo is first to stow the bags of wheat to a height of about three feet all around the square of the hatch. The wheat would then be…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Securities & Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1947
- The OsceolaSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Reed v. the YakaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Felice Grillea v. United States and National Shipping AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1956
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Grigsby v. Coastal Marine Service of Texas, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Abdo Tehr Hussein v. Isthmian Lines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
- Weeks v. Alonzo Cothron, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- Johnny L. Boudreaux v. Sea Drilling CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- Monroe Taylor v. The Ss Helen Lykes, Her Engines, Tackle, Funiture, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
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