Legal Opinion

George W. Whiteman v. Elsoyd Pitrie

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided March 22, 1955No. 15266PublishedCited by 113 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Appellee, plaintiif below, complained that while he was working for appellant, defendant below, as a deckhand on a tug engaged in shifting barges, he sustained a broken arm as a result of negligence of the defendant and of defendant’s failure to furnish him a safe place in which to work. Inland Waterways Corporation was the owner of the barge on which plaintiif was injured.

Three suits were filed on account of the accident. The first, Civil Action No. '3225, the subject of this appeal, was brought by the plaintiif under the Jones Act. 1 The appellant, defendant in the…

2Cases cited8 opinions

Dimick v. SchiedtSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
Marsh v. Illinois Cent. R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1949
Virginian Ry. Co. v. ArmentroutCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1948
Bucher v. KrauseCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1953
Commercial Credit Corp. v. PepperCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1951

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3Cited by113 opinions

Aubrey Hendrix v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
Savino Dagnello v. Long Island Rail Road CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1961
In Re Air Crash Disaster at Florida Everglades on December 29, 1972. Dorothy Gordon, Etc., Joseph Mazur and Rose Mazur, Meryl Adrienne Rubin, Etc., and Fuchsberg & Fuchsberg, Their Attorneys v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc., Steve N. Minguzzi, and Landes, Wingate & Shamis, Their Attorneys v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc., and "Plaintiffs' Committee,"Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
Gorsalitz v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
Hoyte Gentry and N. R. Johnston v. William R. SmithCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973

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