Strachan Shipping Company v. Tom Melvin and Ponce Cement Corporation

rpQ a literal void in the stat-ut6j the Court’s solution produces inequitable, if not shocking, results. None of these consequences could have been intended by a Court speaking, as does this one> in the high and noble terms of equitable principles linked with a liberal application of the Longshoremen’s Act in favor of the injured maritime worker as the some-time ward of the Admiralty, jn g0 deciding, the Court rejects contrary holdings of at least two other Circuits an(j applies our prior Voris decision to a situation not even remotely contemplated by that case. Moreover, this meth-0(j 0f…