Legal Opinion
Willis v. Pan American Refining Corp.
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided March 28, 1939PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
' CHESNUT, District Judge.
The exceptions to the libel in this case in admiralty present several questions, the most important one of which is whether an Ohio administrator of a deceased seaman may maintain this suit in admiralty in the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, under the Merchant Marine Act 1920 (Jones Act) for the alleged negligently caused death of his decedent.
It is alleged in the libel that the seaman, Meredith E. Melvin, was employed as a deckhand on the tug “Pan Two” owned by the Pan American Refining Corporation, and that he was drowned on April…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- The OsceolaSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Panama Railroad v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
- Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Stewart v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Lindgren v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Mandell and Wright v. ThomasTexas Supreme Court · 1969
- Briggs v. Pennsylvania R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1946
- Complaint of Cosmopolitan Shipping Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1978
- Smith v. BevinsDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1944
- Feliu v. Grace Line, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1951
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