Legal Opinion
Thompson v. Calmar Steamship Corporation
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided March 29, 1963No. Civ. A. 26450PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FREEDMAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff was one of a stevedoring company’s gang of longshoremen employed to load shipments of steel aboard the defendant’s vessel, lying anchored in navigable waters. The steel was being loaded directly from gondola freight cars in which it had been shipped and which were on the pier. During the evening and early morning hours of December 27-28, 1957 the work of loading had been going on. A number of ears had been unloaded and by approximately 3:30 to 4:00 A.M. there were six cars on the pier. The first in line, Car No. 1, had been unloaded some time before and the…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Seas Shipping Co. v. SierackiSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Strika v. Netherlands Ministry of Traffic, Directorate General of ShippingCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1950
- James Hagans v. Farrell Lines, Inc. v. Lavino Shipping CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1956
- Litwinowicz v. Weyerhaeuser Steamship CompanyDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1959
- Partenweederei, Ms Belgrano, and Rudolph A. Oetker v. George Weigel, Brady-Hamilton Stevedore Company v. Partenweederei, Ms Belgrano and Rudolph A. OetkerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1962
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Floyd Gene Bridger v. Union Railway CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1966
- James Thompson v. Calmar Steamship CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1964
- Robert Spann v. J. LauritzenCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1965
- Ghandi v. Police Department of DetroitDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1977
- James Thompson, in No. 14943 v. Trent Maritime Co., Ltd., in No. 14943. In No. 14913 v. B. H. Sobelman & Co., Inc., in No. 14913Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1965
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