Legal Opinion
United States Lines Company v. Rufus King and Southern Stevedoring Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 17, 1966No. 10181_1PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.
Longshoreman Rufus King was injured while working aboard the S.S. American Flyer, then taking on cargo at Norfolk, Virginia. He sued the vessel’s owner, United States Lines Company, for damages, laying his misfortune to the shipowner’s negligence and the ship’s unseaworthiness. Besides denying fault entirely, the shipowner filed a third-party complaint against King’s employer, Southern Stevedoring Corporation, for indemnity in the event King succeeded in his suit. To support its claim for indemnity, the shipowner charged that the stevedore’s carelessness caused…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Seas Shipping Co. v. SierackiSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd.Supreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Crumady v. the Joachim Hendrik FisserSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Weyerhaeuser Steamship Co. v. Nacirema Operating Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Gutierrez v. Waterman Steamship Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Raymond E. Pryor, Personal Representative of the Estate of Marion L. Stephens, Deceased v. American President LinesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1975
- Gebhard v. S.S. Hawaiian LegislatorCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1970
- Parker v. S/S Dorothe OlendorffCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
- Joseph Noble v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., and Hellenic Lines, Ltd., Hellenic Lines, Ltd., Third-Party v. Pittston Stevedoring Corp., Third-Party Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., Third-Party v. William Spencer & Son Corp. And Pittston Stevedoring Corp., Third-PartyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1968
- Jones v. United StatesDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1972
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