Legal Opinion
Pinion v. Mississippi Shipping Company
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided October 31, 1957No. 2990 AdmiraltyPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.
Alleging unseaworthiness, libellant, an employee of an independent ship repair contractor, seeks to recover from the respondent ship owner for injuries sustained by him in a fall from a scaffold while repairing a salt water pipeline aboard the SS Del Mar. Respondent makes the defense of laches and, alternatively, denies unseaworthiness as well as the application of the doctrine of liability without fault as to a ship repair man. Under Ryan Stevedoring Co., Inc., v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp., 350 U.S. 124, 76 S.Ct. 232, 100 L.Ed. 133, the respondent also…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Seas Shipping Co. v. SierackiSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. HawnSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- The OsceolaSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
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3Cited by22 opinions
- James E. Vickers, D/B/A Delta Towing Company v. Floyd W. TumeyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
- Cecil Lawlor v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc., Now Known as Socony-Mobil Oil Company, Inc., and Third-Party and Bethlehem Steel Company, Third-PartyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1960
- Edward S. Mesle v. Kea Steamship Corporation, (Haenn Ship Ceiling & Refitting Corporation)Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1958
- Sears, Roebuck and Co. v. American President Lines, Ltd.District Court, N.D. California · 1971
- David Roger Lettsome v. The United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
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