Legal Opinion
Handley v. United States
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 9, 1958PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAWSON, District Judge.
This action, tried by the Court without" a jury, involves a claim for damages by" libellant, a Merchant Marine officer, who; claims he was stabbed by a fellow-officer on October 1, 1952. Libellant elected at the trial to proceed on the theory of unseaworthiness rather than negligence, contending that respondent breached its “absolute duty to the libellant to provide him -with a seaworthy vessel, manned with officers and crew equal in seamanship, character and disposition to the ordinary men in that calling. (Libel, Par. Eighth.) ' ■ -
The Court finds the following facts:
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2Cases cited11 opinions
- Boudoin v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Keen v. Overseas Tankship Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1952
- Jones v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., IncCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1953
- Kyriakos v. GoulandrisCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1945
- Marceau v. Great Lakes Transit CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1945
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3Cited by11 opinions
- James E. Vickers, D/B/A Delta Towing Company v. Floyd W. TumeyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
- Aston Bartholomew v. Universe Tankships, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1960
- Floyd Wesley Clevenger v. Star Fish & Oyster Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
- Edward Connolly v. Farrell Lines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1959
- Roy Blanchard v. Joseph Cheramie D/B/A Cheramie Boat WorksCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
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