Legal Opinion
Jean Ruth Rawson, Individually, and as Administratrix of the Estate of Thomas Roy Rawson, Deceased v. Calmar Steamship Corporation, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 19, 1962No. 16773PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.
On the morning of June 16, 1958, the decedent, Rawson, and one Ross, fellow longshoreman, were on the weather deck of the S. S. Kenmar, the Calmar Company ship which was berthed at a dock in Seattle with cargo to be there unloaded. The night before, the crew of the vessel had uncradled the ship’s booms from their fixed positions in which they rode at sea. The port boom for the No. 3 hatch had been upright against the mast. The crew had lowered the boom perhaps to an angle of about 65° with the deck, or one-third of the way down.
The purpose of lowering the boom is to…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Alaska Steamship Co. v. PettersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Petterson v. Alaska S. S. Co., IncCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1953
- Hoover Co. v. CoeSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
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