Legal Opinion
Capers v. Columbia Coastal Transport, Inc.
District Court, D. South Carolina
Decided May 16, 2003No. 2:02-0975-18PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
NORTON, District Judge.
This matter is before the court on defendant’s motion for summary judgment pursuant to Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
I. Background 1
Plaintiff James Capers (“Capers”), a longshoreman employed by Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring (“Cooper”), was injured when he attempted to disembark onto a dock from the “Columbia New York,” an unmanned barge (the “barge”) owned by defendant Columbia Coastal Transport, Inc. (“Columbia Coastal”). On July 16, 2001, a tugboat owned by Moran Towing Company (“Moran”) transported the barge to the Wando Terminal in the port of…
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