Legal Opinion
Buch v. United States
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 9, 1954PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEINFELD, District Judge.
Libelant, a seaman employed aboard the S. S. Earl A. Bloomquist, sustained serious and permanent injuries as a result of a fall into the hold of the barge Comptoir 4 from a Jacobs ladder rigged over the side of the Bloomquist to the barge which was flush against the side of the ship. The Bloomquist, moored off shore in the Port of Rotterdam, Holland, had been engaged in unloading a coal cargo into the Comptoir 4 and other barges through the use of floating cranes. This unloading operation prevented direct means of egress and ingress from the Bloomquist to shore, since…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Seas Shipping Co. v. SierackiSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- The OsceolaSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Alaska Steamship Co. v. PettersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Petterson v. Alaska S. S. Co., IncCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1953
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3Cited by8 opinions
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- Alfred M. Massey v. Williams-Mcwilliams, Inc., Williams-Mcwilliams, Inc. v. A. M. MasseyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Penedo Cia Naviera S.A. v. Nicholas Maniatis, LibellantCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1959
- Carl Buch, Libelant-Appellee v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1955
- Dixon v. Grace Lines, Inc.California Court of Appeal · 1972
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