Legal Opinion
Dixon v. United States
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 23, 1954PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEINFELD, District Judge.
Libelant Dixon, former chief mate of the S.S. Halton R. Carey, seeks recovery for severe and permanent injuries sustained by him aboard the vessel when several top rungs of a ladder on which he was descending gave way and he fell a distance of more than 20 feet to the deck of a lower hold. The respondent concedes the ladder was defective and in an unsafe condition at the time of the accident. But it resists liability for unseaworthiness 1 upon the ground that it did not furnish the defective ladder to libelant for his use. Respondent maintains that libelant had been…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
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3Cited by8 opinions
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