Legal Opinion
Menefee v. W. R. Chamberlin Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 21, 1950No. 12432PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from a -decree awarding damages for an injury to appellant’s leg caused on January 23, 1947, while removing a large coiled hawser attached to the bulwark near the stern of the S.S. Robert Parrott. We held the vessel negligent in not stowing the hawser elsewhere in safety before sailing on a winter voyage from Puget Sound to the Orient over a northern sailing circuit when the usual winter storms -made it a threat to entanglement with the vessel’s propellers if the expected heavy seas should tear it loose. The anticipated weather was encountered, the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Hughes v. RooseveltCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1939
- Fyfe v. Pan-Atlantic SS CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1940
- Cleary Bros. v. City of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1937
- Tide Water Associated Oil Co. v. RichardsonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1948
- Menefee v. W. R. Chamberlin Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1949
3Cited by14 opinions
- Petition of United States Steel Corporation, as Owner of the Steamship Cedarville, and the Petition of Den Norske Amerikalinje A/s, as Owner of the M/v Topdalsfjord, for Exoneration From or Limitation of Liability. Barbara J. Fuhrman, Administratrix of the Estate of Arthur J. Fuhrman, Deceased, Claimants-Appellants v. United States Steel Corporation and Den Norske Amerikalinje A/s, United States Steel Corporation and Den Norske Amerikalinje A/s, Cross-Appellants v. Billy R. Holley, Cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1973
- Wahlstrom v. Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1993
- Val Marine Corporation v. Leonard Costas, Claimant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1958
- Vitt v. BaerMissouri Court of Appeals · 1960
- Fuhrman v. United States Steel Corp.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1973
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