O'Brien v. Luckenbach S. S. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Suit in admiralty by Mary T. O’Brien, as administratrix of Flurance M. O’Brien, deceased, against the Fuckenbach Steamship Company, Inc., and the Union Transport Company, Inc. Decree for respondents, and libelant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. Suit in admiralty by Mary T. O’Brien, as administratrix of Flurance M. O’Brien, deceased, against the Fuckenbach Steamship Company, Inc., and the Union Transport Company, Inc. Decree for respondents, and libelant appeals. The I/uckonbach Steamship Company is a corporation organized under the laws of tho state of Delaware and is doing business in the Eastern district of New York, and at the times involved herein was the owner of the steamship Louis Duckenbach, hereinafter called the steamship. On October…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). This is a suit in admiralty to recover damages arising from the death of the libelant’s husband, while employed in making repairs on a steamship while lying at a dock in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City.
The owners of the steamship had entered into a contract with the transport company so to fit the vessel that she could properly carry a cargo of grain. This necessitated the installation of wooden bulkheads in the hold of the ship, and the decedent was one of the carpenters employed by the transport company in doing this work. He began his work on…
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