Legal Opinion
Roper v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided August 30, 1960No. 7986PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.
The foreman of a gang of stevedores was injured when there was a rupture of a block on machinery attached to a grain elevator, but partially lowered into the hold of a deactivated vessel owned by the United States. Under the Suits in Admiralty Act1 he filed a libel against the United States. This action resulted in the usual petition to implead the granary, with which the United States had contracted for the unloading of the vessel, and a further petition by the granary to implead the stevedore, the employer of the injured man, with which it had contracted for the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Alaska Steamship Co. v. PettersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- United New York & New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Ass'n v. HaleckiSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- West v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Petterson v. Alaska S. S. Co., IncCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1953
- Hawn v. American S. S. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1939
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Eddie Huff v. Matson Navigation Company, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1964
- Benjamin F. Kent and Employers Casualty Co. v. Shell Oil Company and the Texas CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
- Jesse Noel v. Isbrandtsen Company, Incorporated, a Corporation, and United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1961
- Colonna's Shipyard, Inc. v. U.S.A.F. General Hoyt S. VandenbergDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 2008
- Cockrell v. A. L. Mechling Barge Lines, Inc.District Court, S.D. Texas · 1961
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