Legal Opinion
Orion Shipping and Trading Company, a Corporation, and Pacific Cargo Carriers Corporation v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 25, 1957No. 15264_1PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Circuit Judge.
The two corporate appellants, hereafter Orion, appeal from the dismissal of a third party complaint filed in a suit at common law. The complaint was filed by one Basnight, a seaman on Orion’s Steamship Seacoronet while in dock at Pier 2, in Pusan, Korea, where he was injured by the unseaworthiness of the vessel, exposing him to the fumes of chlorine gas which were negligently allowed to escape from the containers during their loading. Basnight could have sued in admiralty but he chose to sue at common law, as private persons and corporations are permitted. Seas Shipping…
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