Legal Opinion
Sarah A. O'leary, Administratrix v. United States Lines Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 1, 1954No. 4797PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in an action against a shipowner to recover for the injury and death of her stevedore husband, alleged to have been negligently inflicted, has taken this appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict returned by a jury for the defendant by direction of the court. The complaint is in two counts. In the first count recovery in the maximum statutory amount is sought for the death of the deceased longshoreman under the Massachusetts version of Lord Campbell’s Act. Mass.Gen.Laws, Chapter 229, § 2C. In the second count recovery is sought for the decedent’s pain…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. HawnSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Western Fuel Co. v. GarciaSupreme Court of the United States · 1921
- Just v. ChambersSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- American Stevedores, Inc. v. PorelloSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
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3Cited by22 opinions
- The Tungus v. SkovgaardSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Arthur H. Barbe, Admr. v. David N. Drummond, David N. DrummondCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1974
- Empire Seafoods, Inc. v. AndersonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
- Helen T. Turner, Administratrix v. Wilson Line of Massachusetts, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1957
- Byrd v. Napoleon Avenue Ferry CompanyDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1954
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